Wargrave House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. House.

Wargrave House

WRENN ID
grim-tin-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Wargrave House, School Lane
OS grid reference
SU 785 785
Coordinates
51.50057, -0.86996
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wargrave House is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of brick and part flint, featuring a dentil string course above the first-floor windows. The building has a parapet with stone coping and an old tile mansard roof that includes dormers. The roof is hipped at the west gable end and has several irregular chimneys.

The house is two storeys tall with attics. On the entrance front, there are two dormer windows and six upper sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor has a sash window beneath the second upper window from the left, and a three-light sash window beneath the fourth upper window from the left, both also with glazing bars. The two right-hand bays on the ground floor are covered by a flat early 20th-century rectangular bay that includes an entrance door.

The garden front features flint with brick dressings, two hipped dormers, and irregularly placed windows on the lower floors, including some 18th-century sashes with glazing bars and some casement windows. A large 18th-century cast lead rainwater hopper, a square section downpipe, and a large lead cistern can be found at the right end of the building.

Local climate

Wargrave House 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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