Skilcroft is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Skilcroft
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-cinder-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Skilcroft, Bushnells Lane, Stanford Dingley, RG7 6LU
- OS grid reference
- SU 570 709
- Coordinates
- 51.43443, -1.18099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Skilcroft is a house dating from around 1600, with later additions from the 17th century and some 20th-century modifications. The building is timber framed, featuring curved braces on the left side and brick nogging. It has an old tile roof with a central ridge stack and two gabled semi-dormers that contain leaded 20th-century casements. The house has a lobby entrance style with two framed bays and is 1½ storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century leaded casements and a central 20th-century boarded door, which is set beneath a gabled porch located between the first and second windows from the left. There are also 20th-century brick and tile additions on the right side and at the rear of the house.
Local climate
Skilcroft receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- 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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