The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1986. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-wicket-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Finchampstead, RG40 4JN
- OS grid reference
- SU 794 631
- Coordinates
- 51.36219, -0.85994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage, altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed with painted brick infill and partial painted brick exterior, and has a thatched gabled roof. The rectangular plan consists of three framed bays, with a 20th-century lean-to extension at the rear. The cottage has two storeys. There are flanking chimneys. The front elevation has three framed bays. The upper floor features three two-light leaded casement windows; the ground floor has similar windows with a ledged central door sheltered by a tiled, hipped porch roof.
Local climate
The Thatched 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 — 4 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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