Crofters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1987. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Crofters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-entrance-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Crofters Cottage, Hollybush Lane, Sulhamstead, RG7 3JS
- OS grid reference
- SU 644 670
- Coordinates
- 51.39848, -1.07527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th and 18th century building, originally three cottages, now combined into one. The structure is timber-framed with white-painted brick nogging, with some later white-painted brick refacing and rendered sections. It has a thatched roof, half-hipped on the left-hand side with a catslide extending over a rear outshot. The building has five framed bays and a presentation of one-and-a-half storeys. Five eyebrow dormers are visible, each containing a two-light casement window. There are three chimney stacks: one behind the ridge towards the left, a central stack behind the ridge, and an end stack on the right. The ground floor contains six segmental-headed casement windows: the first from the left has five lights arranged with three segmental arches, the second has one light, the third and fifth have two lights each, and the fourth and sixth have three lights each. A segmental-headed boarded door is positioned between the second and third windows from the left.
Local climate
Crofters Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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