The Old Apothecary is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. House.
The Old Apothecary
- WRENN ID
- distant-timber-falcon
- 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
- The Old Apothecary, High Street, Cookham
- OS grid reference
- SU 897 853
- Coordinates
- 51.55999, -0.70742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Apothecary is a small house dating from the 18th century, constructed of painted brick with an old tile gabled roof and a rectangular plan. It stands two storeys tall and features a chimney at the rear. The building has a black painted plinth and a string course at the first-floor level, along with brick dentilled eaves.
The front of the house has three bays. On the first floor to the left, there are two coupled sash windows with glazing bars. To the right, there is an early 20th-century square bay supported by brackets, which also contains sash windows with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a small shop window on the left and two coupled sash windows with glazing bars, along with three entrance doors from the 20th century.
Local climate
The Old Apothecary 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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