Huntsmans Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Huntsmans Cottage

WRENN ID
shifting-sentry-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Huntsmans Cottage, Broadwater Lane, St. Nicholas, Hurst, RG10 0DY
OS grid reference
SU 794 741
Coordinates
51.46074, -0.85833
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Huntsmans Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been altered. It features three bays and is constructed with a timber frame, which is covered in colour washed plaster and has brick infilling. The roof is made of old tiles and there are flanking chimneys, with one located to the left of the center. The cottage has two storeys and an attic. The front facing the road has three bays with 20th-century timber casement windows; the upper windows are two-light, while the ground floor has one similar window on the left and two three-light windows on the right, with a door in between. There is a long porch with a pent roof supported by posts. Additionally, there is one attic window in the gable end.

Local climate

Huntsmans 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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