Winkfield Row: Historic Houses and Public Open Space

Those planning a stay in Winkfield Row can explore the area through two specific themes: historic architecture and a public open space. Winkfield Row Conservation Area was designated on 13 December 2005. Individual houses offer insights into different periods of construction and styles. Together with the documented cycling event in 2024, they provide several points of interest to help you weigh up your travel interests.

Historic houses and their periods of construction

Spring Cottage is a brick house dating from 1869. Its features include blue brick diapering and a date plaque. The diapering forms a pattern of diagonally laid bricks; the plaque adds a clear reference to the date. This house therefore combines a specific year of construction with distinctive architectural details.

White Cottage demonstrates a different construction style: it is a half-timbered house with brick infill and a brick extension. The infill fills the spaces between the sections of the timber frame. Its building history spans the 16th to the 20th century, covering a significantly longer period than Spring Cottage’s single construction year. Winkfield Row, Ronans, meanwhile, refers to a large house from the early 18th century that was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century. The house’s history therefore includes both its early construction period and a substantial later phase of alteration.

These examples have different points of focus: Spring Cottage is distinguished by its construction date and façade details, White Cottage by its half-timbering and long-spanning building history, and Winkfield Row, Ronans by a large house built in the early 18th century and largely rebuilt in the early 19th century. If you are interested in local history, you can consider more than a century of history without reducing the houses to a single architectural style or shared period of construction. If you are interested in local history, you can consider more than a century of history without reducing the houses to a single architectural style or shared period of construction.

Open space and a dated cycling event

Locks Ride Recreation Ground is a large public open space on Forest Road in Winkfield Row. It covers approximately 32,942 square metres. Unlike the houses mentioned above, the focus here is not the history of a building, but a named open space with an approximate area. This provides another specific point of reference to help you find your bearings.

Carnation Hall first received a Green Flag Award in 2008. One example of an event that started and finished there is the Annual Family Cycle Ride 2024: the free circular ride was 10 miles long and followed country roads through Winkfield and Warfield. In 2024, the start and finish were at Carnation Hall on Chavey Down Road in Winkfield Row. Ride marshals, a “Cycle Angel” and first-aid support accompanied the ride. If a cycling event is important to your travel plans, check the dates for your travel period.

When planning your hotel stay, details about the area can help you weigh up your travel interests: historic houses, a public open space or a specific cycling event. Compare the hotels shown for your travel dates and check the terms of each offer.

Discover more destinations: Bracknell, Crowthorne, Winkfield, Sandhurst, Binfield

For the broader travel overview: Bracknell Forest.