Holybrook Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. House.

Holybrook Cottage

WRENN ID
scarred-bailey-frost
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
Holybrook Cottage, Mill Lane
OS grid reference
SU 670 714
Coordinates
51.4377, -1.037
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holybrook Cottage is a house dating from the 15th century, with a 17th century addition on the left and a 20th century addition on the right at the rear. It is timber framed with white painted brick nogging and an old tile roof. The structure features two framed bays on the left and a gabled cross wing on the right, which may be part of a former open hall. The house has two storeys, with arch bracing and a redundant crown post truss visible in the gable to the right, along with a large central ridge stack.

On the first floor, there are three two-light leaded casements, while the ground floor has a two-light leaded casement on the right and a 20th century bay window with five leaded lights and a pent roof on the left. There is a two-leaf 20th century boarded door on the left and a boarded door on the right. Inside, there is a 17th century fireplace with a chamfered lintel and a salt cupboard, as well as a 17th century staircase featuring a square newel, a globe finial, and cut balusters.

Local climate

Holybrook 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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