Old Beams is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Old Beams

WRENN ID
quiet-steeple-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Windsor and Maidenhead
Constituency
Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Old Beams, Warners Hill, Cookham
OS grid reference
SU 875 855
Coordinates
51.56203, -0.73864
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Beams is a cottage dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and an extension added in the mid-20th century. The structure features a combination of timber framing with brick infill, brick, and flint. It has an old tiled gabled roof and originally had a rectangular plan consisting of two framed bays, but it has been extended at the rear to create an L-shaped layout. The cottage is two storeys high and has one chimney on the northeast slope and two on the northwest. The windows are 20th-century scattered leaded casements, and there is a plain 20th-century entrance door located under a flat hood in the extension on the southwest front.

Local climate

Old Beams 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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