The Old Dutch House is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Cottage.
The Old Dutch House
- WRENN ID
- odd-cornice-cobweb
- 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
- The Old Dutch House, High Street, Bray
- OS grid reference
- SU 902 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50752, -0.70146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Dutch House is a cottage that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 16th century and was altered and extended in the mid-20th century. The structure features a timber frame with painted brick infill and has an old tile gabled roof. It has a long rectangular plan with extensions at the rear and stands one and a half storeys tall. A tall chimney with a clay pot is located on the roof slope facing the war memorial.
On the north-west front, there are late 19th and early 20th century casement windows, some of which are leaded. The house has three gabled roof dormers; the left one is larger and contains a three-light window, while the other two dormers have two-light windows. The ground floor has a variety of window placements within the timber framing, including one two-light window and one four-light window on the right side, as well as two coupled two-light windows near the center. The later section on the left is set back slightly and features a small three-light window on the ground floor and a similar window on the upper level. The interior has been significantly altered, with little of the original building remaining visible.
Local climate
The Old Dutch House 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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