3 AND 5, CHEAPSIDE, 38, OXFORD ROAD
3 AND 5, CHEAPSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113436
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, CHEAPSIDE, 38, OXFORD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 5, CHEAPSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113436
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-May-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, CHEAPSIDE, 38, OXFORD ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 5, CHEAPSIDE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 38, OXFORD ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 5, CHEAPSIDE
- Statutory Address:
- 38, OXFORD ROAD
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 71157 73437
Details
In the entry for
CHEAPSIDE
2/430 Nos 3 to 7 (odd) the numbering shall be amended to read Nos 3 and 5
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CHEAPSIDE 1. 5128 Nos 3 to 7 (odd) SU 7173 SW 2/430 II 2. Including No 38 Oxford Road. Circa 1900. Architects, Joseph Morris and Son. 6 bays corner site. 3 1/2 storeys. Dutch stepped gables to attic dormers. English bond grey brick with red brick or terracotta dressings, transom and lintel level bands and moulded strings to crow steps; terracotta decoration and relieving arches to 2 larger gables. Parapet. Tiled roof. 4 off-ridge chimneys, one to right of corner gable is an external stack, corbelled and with an applied corbelled red brick diagonal shaft. Tall gable of 4 lights on corner, with 3 light gable to left and a group of 3 gables 2-3-2 lights to right, at far end is a wide 5-light gable with coped verge and sash ends. 1st and 2nd floor windows have decorative lintels, moulded transoms and fluted mullions. 4 lights to corner bay; Oxford Road bay has an angled bay flanked by single lights. Two 5-light oriels to Cheapside flanking a 5-light window on 2nd floor, pattern revised on 1st floor with bracketed hood over. Outer bay plainer. Heavy kidney shaped rainwater heads. Modern ground floor shop premises retaining former fascia.
Listing NGR: SU7115773437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38839
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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