Wiggs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. House.
Wiggs Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-pediment-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wiggs Cottage, the Moor, Cookham
- OS grid reference
- SU 894 852
- Coordinates
- 51.55945, -0.71096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wiggs Cottage is a small house built in the late 18th century. It features a brick construction with an old tile hipped roof and has a rectangular plan. The building stands two storeys tall and has one chimney on the ridge and another on the right-hand gable, both topped with cornices and clay pots. The eaves are dentilled and offset. The front of the cottage has three bays with sash windows that include glazing bars. There is a four-panel door, which is top-glazed, located under a 20th-century gabled porch supported by carved brackets to the left of the right-hand end bay.
Local climate
Wiggs 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 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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