Old Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1972. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Old Timbers
- WRENN ID
- grey-loggia-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Timbers, the Pound, Cookham, SL6 9QE
- OS grid reference
- SU 890 852
- Coordinates
- 51.55877, -0.71742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Timbers is a 17th-century cottage and byre, extended and altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. Part of the building is timber frame, now encased in painted brick, while the remainder is painted brick. It has a gabled old tile roof and an irregular plan with two gables facing the road. The cottage is two storeys high, with a tall chimney on the rear roof slope featuring clay pots, and a central chimney. It contains irregular 19th- and 20th-century casement windows, some with leaded lights, and a plain entrance door on the south west front.
Local climate
Old Timbers 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 2007
- 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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