21-23, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage, house, veterinary surgery.
21-23, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- white-courtyard-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage, house, veterinary surgery
- Address
- 21-23, Main Street, West Ilsley, RG20 7AR
- OS grid reference
- SU 471 825
- Coordinates
- 51.53984, -1.32115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 21-23 on Main Street is a cottage that was later converted into a house and veterinary surgery. It dates back to the early 17th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame with painted plaster infill and a tiled roof. It consists of three bays, with a short bay containing a round chimney, and an extension at right angles to the rear. There are two cross gables on the north side flanking the main chimney. The structure is one storey with an attic, and it has a gabled eaves dormer on the north side of the west bay. A large chimney is situated between the east and central bays, while a small chimney is located on the west gable.
On the north elevation, there are 19th-century oriel windows in each cross gable, a canted oriel window in the left bay, a three-light casement window in the central bay, and a door beneath a gabled hood. There is also a canted oriel window in the right bay.
Local climate
21-23, Main Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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