Pens Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Pens Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-iron-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pens Cottage, Chieveley, RG18 9EB
- OS grid reference
- SU 488 716
- Coordinates
- 51.44199, -1.29901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pens Cottage is a house dated 1608, located in Curridge, Chieveley. It features white painted brick and a timber frame with brick nogging. The roof is pantiled, with an end stack to the left and a ridge stack off-centre to the right. The building has two storeys and consists of two framed bays with angle braces, and there are five casement windows on each floor. To the right, there is a one-storey addition with a casement window, which may be a later 17th-century framed bay that has been reduced in height. A 20th-century two-storey addition is present on the left, with a casement window on each storey. The entrance is located on the west side. Pens Cottage is traditionally associated with Cromwell's encampment before the Battle of Newbury.
Local climate
Pens Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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