Wren Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Wren Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-latch-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wren Cottage, Ashford Hill with Headley, RG19 8BL
- OS grid reference
- SU 552 611
- Coordinates
- 51.34656, -1.20745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren Cottage is an 18th-century building that features a long structure comprising a house that extends into a barn. It has a timber frame with later cladding and stands two storeys high with irregular window arrangements. The roof is half-hipped and covered with tiles. The walls are made of painted brick in Flemish bond, with the exposed frame visible on the east gable and boarded walling on the west side. The windows are casements, and there is a plain doorway.
Local climate
Wren Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2020
- 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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