The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-garret-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Wargrave
- OS grid reference
- SU 789 821
- Coordinates
- 51.53263, -0.86273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a building that dates back to the 16th century, with extensions from the 17th century and alterations made in the 20th century. Originally a cottage, it has been converted into a house. The structure is timber framed and later faced with flint and brick dressings. It features an old tiled gabled roof with a large 17th-century brick chimney at the rear. The building has a T-plan layout with four timber frame bays and a two-bay extension at the rear, standing two storeys high.
On the east front, there are four bays with two-light wood casement windows on the first floor, which have small gables that break the eaves, along with a central blocked window. The ground floor includes three three-light small pane casement windows, a blocked window to the right of centre, and a 20th-century entrance door that is half glazed with small panes, situated under a tiled pent porch supported by cut brackets, located in the second bay from the left. Inside, some of the timber frame is exposed.
Local climate
The 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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