Byways Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Cottage.
Byways Thatch
- WRENN ID
- buried-grate-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Byways Thatch, Holly Lane, Ashampstead
- OS grid reference
- SU 572 764
- Coordinates
- 51.48428, -1.17704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Byways Thatch is a 17th-century cottage located on the south side of Holly Lane in Ashampstead. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging and a hipped thatched roof that sweeps down over a lean-to extension on the left side, as well as a projecting 20th-century porch on the right. The cottage has two eyebrow semi-dormers on the left, each with leaded casements. There is an off-centre ridge stack to the right and an end stack on the left. The building consists of four framed bays and is 1½ storeys high. The porch on the right has a boarded door, while the left side has four 2-light leaded casements, and there is one 3-light leaded casement positioned between the first and third 2-light casements from the left.
Local climate
Byways Thatch sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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