Arborfield Court is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. A Edwardian Country house. 5 related planning applications.
Arborfield Court
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-clay-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Country house
- Period
- Edwardian
- Address
- Arborfield Court, Swallowfield Road, Arborfield and Newland, RG2 9JS
- OS grid reference
- SU 758 664
- Coordinates
- 51.39223, -0.91134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Arborfield Court is a large country house, built in 1904 by Fairfax B. Wade, and now divided into two separate units. It is constructed of red brick with orange dressings, with rendered panels between window heads and sills, and has a tile hipped roof with extended brick end stacks. The house is two storeys high with attics.
The architectural style is free William and Mary. The entrance front has three central bays that project, with a further projection in the central bay containing a pedimented stair tower. The central bay is panelled over three storeys with a recessed dressed arch above a triple keystone. An octagonal wooden oriel window, with rendered panels, rises over two storeys to the attic floor. The main facade features nine bays with cross casements in the outer three bays on each side, and six-light casements flanking the central bays; all windows are leaded. A recessed arched entrance is topped by a large, recessed open segmental pediment, which is filled in on the sides and panelled. The entrance is framed by panelled double doors with a latticed overlight and sidelights, set within a brick surround. The whole is flanked by small, single-storey projecting pavilions. The garden front is in a similar style, with projecting wings.
Inside, there is a return staircase in a panelled well, featuring a barley sugar balustrade.
Local climate
Arborfield Court 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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