The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-keep-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 80, Barkham Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 803 683
- Coordinates
- 51.40848, -0.84653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a late 16th-century cottage located on Barkham Road in Wokingham. It features a timber frame with painted render infill and an old tiled gabled roof. The building has a T-plan layout with four by two framed bays and stands two storeys high with an attic. The southwest front includes three small gabled dormers and a 20th-century glazed entrance door beneath a 20th-century gabled porch. An interior inspection was not allowed during the survey.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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