Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
muted-balcony-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Church Cottage, Beenham, RG7 5NN
OS grid reference
SU 590 685
Coordinates
51.41265, -1.15176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was refronted in 1866. It features a timber frame with incised rendered brick facing and has an old tiled roof. The building has two gabled semi-dormers with casement windows and a central ridge stack. It is a lobby entrance type with two framed bays and stands at one and a half storeys high. The front has two windows, all of which are casements. There is a central entrance with a gabled brick porch, and an arch brace is exposed at the rear.

Local climate

Church Cottage 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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