Lych Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Lych Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-eave-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lych Gate Cottage, Church Lane, Bray, SL6 2AF
- OS grid reference
- SU 901 796
- Coordinates
- 51.50848, -0.70208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lych Gate Cottage is a small cottage dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features painted render and an old tile roof that is hipped on the right side, adjoining Yew Tree Cottage (numbers 3 and 4). The cottage has a rectangular two-cell plan with an extension at the rear and is one storey high. The east front has a black plinth and includes two 2-light 19th-century casement windows, with a plain entrance door from the 20th century situated between them.
Local climate
Lych Gate Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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