Buckle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Cottage.

Buckle Cottage

WRENN ID
pitched-grate-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 November 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Buckle Cottage, the Alley, Cold Ash
OS grid reference
SU 514 709
Coordinates
51.43486, -1.26099
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Buckle Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century and 18th century. It features a timber frame with brick nogging and some partial refacing. The roof is thatched and hipped to the right, with two eyebrow dormers that have tiled eaves below and a central ridge stack. The building has a lobby entrance type design with two framed bays and is 1½ storeys high. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed door and a 20th-century gabled porch with a glazed door, flanked by two segmental-headed three-light 20th-century casements. To the left is an 18th-century block made of red brick with an old tile roof, a gabled dormer, and a central ridge stack. This section is also 1½ storeys high and features two-light and one-light segmental-headed casements to the left, along with a boarded door to the right that has a 20th-century gabled porch.

Local climate

Buckle 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Cob Hatch Westwood Woodrow Grade II 57 m
  2. Wallins Cottage Grade II 620 m
  3. Threshing Barn at Westrop Farm Grade II 739 m
  4. Downe House School St Peters St Peters, Downe House School Grade II 954 m
  5. Cold Ash War Memorial Grade II 1.0 km
  6. Bay Cottage Grade II 1.2 km
  7. Thatched Cottage Grade II 1.3 km
  8. Poplar Farmhouse Grade II 1.6 km
  9. Fisher's Farmhouse Grade II 1.6 km
  10. Church of St Mary Grade II* 1.8 km