Church Cottage Church of England School is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. School, house.

Church Cottage Church of England School

WRENN ID
peeling-quartz-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 1987
Type
School, house
Address
Church Cottage Church of England School, Church Road, Woodley
OS grid reference
SU 768 737
Coordinates
51.45725, -0.89532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage and Woodley Church of England School is a former schoolmaster's house and school hall, now serving as an infants school. Built in 1873 by H. Woodyer, it features 20th-century extensions. The building is constructed of chequered brick and flint with tiled gabled roofs. The plan is irregular, with a rectangular hall located on the east side. It has one storey and one and a half storeys, with a brick chamfered plinth.

The south front includes a hall on the right side with four bays, featuring 4-light mullion and transom leaded windows, and buttresses between them. An ornate chimney with a moulded base and offset moulded head is located at the left end of the ridge. To the left of the hall, there is a small gabled roof projection that houses a bell, supported by moulded brackets and purlin ends. The adjoining cottage on the left is lower and has a large chimney with four clustered shafts on the rear roof slope, also with a moulded base and offset heads. The cottage features 3-light leaded casements stacked one above the other in a gable bay on the left, and a 2-light similar window in a small gabled dormer above a projecting closed gabled entrance porch on the right.

Local climate

Church Cottage Church of England School 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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