The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-landing-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, 20, Reading Road, Finchampstead, RG27 0RP
- OS grid reference
- SU 774 627
- Coordinates
- 51.35813, -0.88902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the late 19th and late 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill, as well as sections of painted brick and painted weatherboard. There is a single-storey extension from the 19th century on the left side. The cottage has one and a half storeys and flanking chimneys. The front is two bays wide, with two-light 19th-century casement windows at the upper level, which are topped with eyebrow dormers. On the ground floor, there is a three-light window and a central ledged door, which is sheltered by a tiled lean-to porch roof supported on cut brackets.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- No sale records on file
- 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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