The Old Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-baluster-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Cottage, Blakes Lane, Wargrave, RG10 9TA
- OS grid reference
- SU 808 783
- Coordinates
- 51.49805, -0.83638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Cottage is a house that originated as a cottage in the 17th century, with 20th-century extensions. It features a timber frame with painted roughcast infill and some painted brick, topped by an old tiled gabled roof with a chimney on the left side. The building has an L-shape, consisting of two framed bays and a brick extension to the right that continues to the rear. The east front has two bays of timber framing with straight braces, while the rest is painted brick. On the first floor, there are four 20th-century two-light leaded casement windows, and on the ground floor, there are three two-light and one three-light similar windows. To the right, there is a 20th-century gabled porch with a 20th-century door behind it.
Local climate
The Old Post 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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