The Robert Palmer Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. A Victorian Almshouses.
The Robert Palmer Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ancient-cupola-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Robert Palmer Cottages, Pearson Road, Sonning
- OS grid reference
- SU 758 754
- Coordinates
- 51.47284, -0.9094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Robert Palmer Cottages are 19th-century almshouses built in 1850. They are a single storey with an attic, constructed of brick and topped with a tiled roof. The building features a projecting central gabled entrance, which is flanked by three bays of gabled dormers above four-light stone mullioned windows. There are six tall brick chimneys positioned centrally along the ridge, each with diagonal shafts. A small 20th-century extension has been added to the rear.
Local climate
The Robert Palmer 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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