Roxburgh and Laundry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Roxburgh and Laundry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-courtyard-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Roxburgh and Laundry Cottage, Pearson Road, Sonning, RG4 6UH
- OS grid reference
- SU 756 754
- Coordinates
- 51.47256, -0.91177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roxburgh and Laundry Cottage is a late 17th- and early 18th-century house, originally part of the service wing of The Grove. It is two storeys high and constructed of colour-washed brick, with an old tile roof. A projecting timbered gable is on the right side, featuring a three-light leaded casement window on the first floor and a four-light casement window on the ground floor. A battened door is located beneath a flat hood on the extreme right. To the left of the gable is a three-light leaded casement window on the ground floor, and a three-light vertical sliding sash window above.
Local climate
Roxburgh and Laundry Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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