Magnolia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Magnolia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-rampart-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Magnolia Cottage, Eversley Road, Arborfield and Newland, RG2 9PG
- OS grid reference
- SU 762 668
- Coordinates
- 51.39579, -0.90544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magnolia Cottage is a late 16th-century cottage that was rebuilt in the 18th century and extended in the 19th century. It is located on the east side of Eversley Road, near Arborfield Cross. The cottage is constructed of vitreous brick with red vertical strips, along with timber framing to the gable ends with painted render infill, and has an old tile gabled roof. The design is a parallel ridge plan with a 19th-century extension at the rear.
The cottage is two storeys high, with a central chimney on the ridge. The front of the building has a brick plinth, a first-floor string, offset eaves with dentil detailing, red brick quoins, and window dressings. It has three bays; the outer bays feature 20th-century leaded casement windows, while the central bay has a small 19th-century plain casement window above a four-panelled entrance door in a 19th-century gabled porch. There are similar ground-floor windows either side of the porch, matching the windows above.
Inside, the roof features queen post trusses; these are partly rebuilt from the 18th century, but some smoke-blackened rafters remain.
Local climate
Magnolia 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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