Highway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Highway Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-wattle-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highway Cottage, Basingstoke Road, Shinfield, RG7 1BA
- OS grid reference
- SU 714 677
- Coordinates
- 51.4047, -0.97351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highway Cottage is a small house dating from the 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 20th century. It is constructed of brick and features an old tile gabled roof. The building stands two storeys tall and has flanking chimneys. The front of the house includes a first-floor string course and boxed eaves. There are two bays with 5-light wood casement windows, along with a central door that has a flat board hood above it. At the rear, there is a 20th-century extension. Historically, the cottage was once a public house known as The George and Dragon.
Local climate
Highway 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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