Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Barn Cottage

WRENN ID
silver-slate-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Barn Cottage, Church Street, Hampstead Norreys, RG18 0TB
OS grid reference
SU 529 763
Coordinates
51.4833, -1.23833
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barn Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It features a chequer brick exterior and an old tile gabled roof. The building has a rectangular plan with one-storey hipped roof extensions on both the left and right sides, as well as two gabled extensions at the rear. It stands two storeys high with an attic. There is a large chimney on the left gable and a smaller one on the right, both with offset heads. The cottage has a flint plinth and a first-floor string course. On the upper level, there are two three-light casement windows, while the lower level has two four-light 20th-century leaded casements with segmental heads. The central door is half-glazed and is located under a 20th-century gabled porch.

Local climate

Barn 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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