The Lakes is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. A C17 Cottage.
The Lakes
- WRENN ID
- lost-ledge-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Lakes, Waltham Road, Ruscombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 807 763
- Coordinates
- 51.48068, -0.83787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lakes is a cottage located on Walthem Road, dating from the early 17th century with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building features a timber frame that is faced in brick, topped with an old tile gabled roof and a central chimney on the ridges. It stands two storeys tall with an entrance front comprising two bays. On both floors, there are 2-light 19th-century casement windows, with those on the ground floor having segmental arches above them, along with a central door. There is a small 20th-century extension with a tiled lean-to roof on both the left and right sides. Inside, the principal beams on the ground floor are stop-chamfered and have carved stops, and there is a large inglenook fireplace with a substantial bread oven that projects out at the rear of the house.
Local climate
The Lakes 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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