The Old Barn and Skipps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1977. Barn.
The Old Barn and Skipps Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-cornice-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1977
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Old Barn and Skipps Cottage, School Lane, Wargrave
- OS grid reference
- SU 786 785
- Coordinates
- 51.50049, -0.86793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Barn and Skipps Cottage is a small barn that has been converted into two cottages, dating from the early 19th century. It features a timber frame with a gabled roof covered in old tiles and stands one and a half storeys tall. The wall facing the street is constructed of random brick and flint, while the east gable is weather boarded. There is a weather boarded, arched, blocked central entrance. At the rear, there are 20th-century extensions and conversions. A small yard is located to the west, and to the east, there is a 9-foot brick wall on a flint plinth that extends for about 10 yards. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Old Barn and Skipps Cottage 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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