Homestead Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Cottage.
Homestead Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-gateway-jet
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Homestead Cottage, Yattendon Lane
- OS grid reference
- SU 557 744
- Coordinates
- 51.4664, -1.1993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Homestead Cottage is a cottage built in the late 19th century, with an addition from around 1900 to the south and a small 20th-century addition to the east, designed by Alfred Waterhouse. The cottage is constructed of red brick, featuring some timber framing on the first floor to the south, with brick nogging and plaster infill in the gable end. It has toothed verges and a gable to the east that includes a corbelled dovecote at the apex. The roof is made of old tiles, sloping lower over the southern addition.
The building has a T-plan and is 1½ storeys high. On the south front, there is a three-light casement window in the gable end on the first floor, and a two-light segmental headed casement window below on the ground floor. The west front features a two-light segmental headed casement window off-centre to the left and a segmental headed doorway to the left with a half-glazed door. On the east front, there is a two-light casement window on the first floor to the left, a two-light segmental headed casement window off-centre to the left on the ground floor, and a segmental headed doorway to the left with a boarded door and a tiled lean-to porch. To the right, there is a later one-storey lean-to with a small casement. The projecting wing to the right has a two-light segmental headed casement in the gable end on the first floor and a four-light segmental headed casement window below.
The stable wing features a central segmental headed doorway with a two-leaf boarded door, flanked by two two-light segmental headed casements.
Local climate
Homestead 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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