The Alms Cottages and Linking Wall is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. Almshouses. 3 related planning applications.
The Alms Cottages and Linking Wall
- WRENN ID
- late-hinge-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1967
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Alms Cottages and Linking Wall, 1-4, Church Road, Aldermaston
- OS grid reference
- SU 591 651
- Coordinates
- 51.382, -1.15129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Alms Cottages and Linking Wall are two pairs of almshouses built in 1706, with restoration in 1906. They are constructed from red brick and feature plinths, a dentil brick eaves cornice, old tile roofs, and end stacks. The cottages are two storeys high, with two segmental-headed casements on each floor and two central segmental-headed doorways that have boarded doors. There is also a brick linking wall that stands approximately 2.5 metres high, topped with coping and featuring a central brick arch.
Local climate
The Alms Cottages and Linking Wall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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