Spring Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. A 17th century Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Spring Cottages
- WRENN ID
- lone-paling-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 17th century
- Address
- Spring Cottages, 1 and 2, Charvil Lane, Sonning, RG4 6TL
- OS grid reference
- SU 760 754
- Coordinates
- 51.47297, -0.90617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottages is a 17th-century cottage that has been altered and modernised. It stands two storeys tall and is constructed with a timber frame and painted brick infill, topped with an old tile roof. The northwest gable features one bay of early 19th-century wooden three-light casement windows, along with a 19th-century addition in painted brick that has timber framing on the right side. At the rear of the cottage, there is a large 20th-century timber-framed extension that is positioned at right angles to the main building.
Local climate
Spring Cottages 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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