5, Waltham Road 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.
5, Waltham Road
- WRENN ID
- young-pedestal-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 5, Waltham Road, Ruscombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 801 765
- Coordinates
- 51.48181, -0.84681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Waltham Road is a 17th-century cottage. The upper part of the building features a timber frame with painted brick infilling, while the lower part is made of painted brick. It has an old tiled roof and flanking chimneys, with the left chimney being large and having vertical offsets and an offset head. The entrance front has two bays on each floor, which contain three and two-light leaded casement windows, along with a central half-glazed 20th-century entrance door. There is also a small single-storey 20th-century extension set back on the right, which has a tiled gable roof.
Local climate
5, Waltham Road 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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- 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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