Drumhead Cottage Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Drumhead Cottage Thatch Cottage

WRENN ID
spare-merlon-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Drumhead Cottage Thatch Cottage, Bunglers Hill, Swallowfield
OS grid reference
SU 748 644
Coordinates
51.37434, -0.92558
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Drumhead Cottage and Thatch Cottage are two cottages that were originally three, dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, with 20th-century alterations and extensions. The buildings feature a mix of construction styles, including part timber framing with brick infill and a thatched roof, as well as sections of chequer brick with an old tile roof. The cottages have an irregular plan and are two storeys high.

The road front displays two timber-framed bays on the left, with one remaining brace visible on the first floor. Both floors have two bays of three-light 20th-century leaded casement windows, with a 20th-century entrance door located between them on the ground floor. The middle section, which is 18th century, has two bays with two-light leaded casements on the first floor, flanking a blocked central window. There is a 19th-century central entrance door, which is flanked by four-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows with leaded casements, all set under segmental brick arches.

The adjoining cottage on the right has been rebuilt and is not of special interest. Inside, the timber-framed section has most of its frame exposed, featuring windbraces that have been carefully restored.

Local climate

Drumhead Cottage Thatch 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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