Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill

Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill, Reading, RG1 7SY

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Overview

House, built between the 1840s and 1860s, flats in 2023. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113424
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill
Statutory Address:: Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill, Reading, RG1 7SY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113424
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Jan-2024
List Entry Name:: Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill
Statutory Address 1:: Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill, Reading, RG1 7SY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill, Reading, RG1 7SY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Reading (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 70951 72978

Summary

House, built between the 1840s and 1860s, flats in 2023.

Reasons for Designation

Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill, Reading, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as a mid-C19 building which contributes to the character of an architecturally varied historic streetscape.

Historic interest:

* as part of the historic urban development of Reading.

Group value:

* the building is in close proximity to a large number of listed buildings and forms part of a strong historic grouping.

History

123 Castle Hill (Castleton House) was constructed sometime between the late 1840s and early 1860s. It appears to have been built as a single house rather than as part of a terrace, possibly as an infilling of land formerly attached to Clevedon House immediately to the west. The building predates the western part of the neighbouring property at 121 Castle Hill, whose south elevation and west gable end wall are set back so as to avoid a first-floor sash window at 123 Castle Hill.

There is little documentary evidence regarding the building’s history, but it appears to have remained in use as a dwelling since its construction, although it was converted to flats probably sometime in the C20. The building appears to have been little altered externally, although a second-floor sash window has been replaced with an air vent and it appears to have lost its historic boundary treatment.

Details

A house, built between the 1840s and 1860s, now flats. Formerly Castle Street, now Castle Hill.

MATERIALS AND PLAN: the principal elevation is of red brick and stucco. The roof covering is slate. Three storeys and basement.

EXTERIOR: the Castle Hill elevation is smooth rendered at basement level and has channelled rustication at ground-floor level. The brickwork is exposed on the first and second floors. The partly-exposed eastern elevation is smooth rendered. A plat band runs across the façade at first-floor sill level and continues round onto the eastern elevation. The six-panel door with simple modern rectangular fanlight and stucco cornice is accessed via a short flight of steps with an historic iron handrail. To the left of the doorway, the ground floor and basement each contain two windows, with eight-over-eight sashes at basement level and margin-glazed sashes with rusticated stucco window heads on the ground floor. The first floor contains three, six-over-six sash windows within entablatured stucco architraves. The second floor has two, three-over-six sash windows. The central second-floor window surround survives although the window has been replaced with a louvred air vent. The eastern elevation contains two sash windows, one on the first floor almost completely hidden by 121 Castle Hill and a small two-over-two sash window on the second floor. The eastern gable is punctuated by two tall brick stacks: one, of four flues sitting flush with the gable wall and the other of ten flues. There is a third chimney stacks on the rear pitch of the west gable, abutting the neighbouring property at 125 Castle Hill.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 38814
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Tyack, Geoffrey, Bradley, Simon, Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (2010), 470

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.