The Lieutenant's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Lieutenant's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-copper-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Lieutenant's Cottage, Basingstoke Road, Shinfield, RG7 1AP
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 675
- Coordinates
- 51.40224, -0.97276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
An 18th-century cottage located on the east side of Shinfield Basingstoke Road, near Three Mile Cross. The cottage is constructed of painted brick with an old tile gabled roof and has flanking chimneys. The road-facing facade has a plinth, a string course marking the first floor, and toothed eaves. It features two bays of 19th-century wood casement windows, each with two lights and Venetian shutters, and a central 6-panelled door. The door is sheltered by a wood-gabled porch with an old tile roof.
Local climate
The Lieutenant's Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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