Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1985. Cottage.
Vine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-slate-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Vine Cottage, Castle Lane, Swallowfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 756 648
- Coordinates
- 51.37747, -0.91451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vine Cottage is a cottage that dates from the late 16th century, with alterations from the 17th century and further changes and extensions made in the 20th century. The building features a combination of timber framing with brick infill, brickwork, and painted weatherboarding, topped with a tiled gabled roof. It is comprised of two framed bays, with gabled extensions on the right side and at the rear. The cottage stands two storeys high and has three chimneys: one on the left side of the ridge, one on the right at the rear slope of the roof, and one on the right gable of the extension's ridge.
The south front displays irregularly spaced leaded casement windows, with two and three lights. The left section of the cottage has exposed timber framing and is underbuilt in brick, while the right section is set back, featuring weatherboarding on the first floor and brick underneath. There is a planked entrance door with a lion head knocker, sheltered by a gabled porch. Inside, some of the timber framing is exposed, and there is an inglenook fireplace. The roof framing was replaced in the 20th century. The adjacent Woodcot cottage to the west is noted as being of no special interest.
Local climate
Vine 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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