The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. A C16/17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-threshold-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Front Street, East Garston, RG17 7EU
- OS grid reference
- SU 366 767
- Coordinates
- 51.48811, -1.47422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and has a thatched roof that is half hipped to the right, sweeping down over a one-storey extension to the left. The thatch extends around the first-floor windows. The cottage is 1½ storeys tall. The extension includes one leaded casement window and a ledged door, while the main block has two leaded casements on the first floor and two pairs of leaded casements on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 7 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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