Timber Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. A C14 Cottage.

Timber Cottage

WRENN ID
gaunt-casement-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 December 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Timber Cottage, 67, High Street, Wargrave, RG10 8BY
OS grid reference
SU 785 786
Coordinates
51.50116, -0.86963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Timber Cottage is a hall house that has been converted into a cottage, dating from the 14th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill and a brick gable front, topped with an old tiled gabled roof and a 19th-century chimney on the right. The building consists of four framed bays, including a two-bay solar, a short bay cross passage or smoke bay, and one bay hall at the rear. It is one and a half storeys tall.

The front facing the road has a gable with a two-light leaded casement window on the upper floor and a four-light similar casement window on the ground floor. There is a 20th-century entrance door on the right, which is located under a continuous, slightly projecting lead-covered wood fascia that spans the entire width of the building. At the rear, there is a 20th-century extension.

Inside, the cottage retains a fine timber frame, complete with a plain crown post that is braced twice longitudinally to the collar purlin, along with curved wind braces and large timbers and joists supporting the solar.

Local climate

Timber 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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