The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-paling-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, the Chase, Holybrook, RG31 7DP
- OS grid reference
- SU 669 718
- Coordinates
- 51.44166, -1.03772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th and 17th century house, with 20th-century additions. The house is timber framed with angle braces and white painted brick nogging, with areas of partial brick refacing and some first-floor tile hanging to the south. It has an old tile roof. The building is in an "L" shape, with two framed bays to the north and a two-bay gabled cross wing to the south.
The east front has a 20th-century rectangular bay with a pentice roof to the right. A ridge stack is positioned off-centre to the right and there is an end stack to the right. The first floor has two 2-light leaded casement windows to the left and one 3-light leaded casement to the right. Two ground floor 5-light leaded casements are to the right, and a 20th-century recessed porch with a door is to the left. The central first floor has a 2-light diamond leaded casement flanked by two one-light diamond leaded casements, within the cross wing to the left, with two ground floor 3-light diamond leaded casements below. A 5-light diamond leaded casement is in a small lean-to to the left. A one-storey 20th-century garage block sits to the left.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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