Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-chapel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Blandys Lane, Basildon, RG8 8PH
- OS grid reference
- SU 597 773
- Coordinates
- 51.49192, -1.14078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 20th-century additions to the north and east. The cottage is timber framed with brick nogging, set on a brick plinth. It features angle braces in the end wall and later brick additions. The thatched roof incorporates a 20th-century half-hipped cross wing projecting to the right, with an end stack to the left and a ridge stack off-centre to the right. Two eyebrow dormers with 2-light leaded casements are located on the south side. The cottage has two framed bays to the west. The south front has a first-floor 3-light casement in the cross wing to the right, with a matching 3-light ground floor window below. To the left are two 6-light mullioned and transomed leaded windows, flanking a 20th-century boarded door with a 19th-century gabled timber porch.
Local climate
Walnut Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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