Alma Cottage Alma Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1981. House. 1 related planning application.

Alma Cottage Alma Lodge

WRENN ID
former-cinder-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1981
Type
House
Address
Alma Cottage Alma Lodge, Speen Lane, RG14 1RJ
OS grid reference
SU 454 681
Coordinates
51.41052, -1.34823
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Alma Cottage and Alma Lodge is a house that has been divided into two homes, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features painted brick and timber framing with brick nogging, and has a tiled roof that is hipped forward to the right. The building is in an L shape and has two storeys with all casement windows. The left side has a lobby entrance with two framed bays and two casements on each floor, along with a blocked central door and a stack on the ridge above. The right side has a cross wing that projects and includes one casement on each floor. There is a 20th-century lean-to porch on the left with a parapet, and a stack is centrally located on the ridge.

Local climate

Alma Cottage Alma Lodge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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