57, Christchurch Road
57, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG2 7BD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113440
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 57, Christchurch Road
- Statutory Address:
- 57, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG2 7BD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113440
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-May-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 57, Christchurch Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 57, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG2 7BD
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:
- 57, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG2 7BD
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 72524 72138
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 January 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
SU 7272
9/437
CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (north side)
No 57
(Formerly listed as Nos 57 and 57A, The Mount, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD)
GV
II
House for manager of Huntley and Palmer's. On corner of Christchurch Road and the Mount estate. Angle turret towards Christchurch. Circa 1876. Two and half storeys. Gault brick with paler brick bands at cill and lintel levels. (latter brick-block flush-work). Modillion eaves cornice. Slate roof with fish-scale bands. Two chimneys lacking cogged capping. Plate glass sash windows with bracket cills, cast-iron flower basket guards and stop-moulded stone lintels. Three bays to main road with corner angled bays, to left as polygonal turret, both with turret roofs, left hand one with diaperwork in pointed relieving arches over first floor. Central gabled break with diaperwork and irregularly placed windows, paired on first floor. Gabled hood to doorpiece which has floral caps and pointed entrance. Decoratively panelled door. Coped gable to east with diaper in gable. Two windows and angle turret to the Mount. Railings, Standards etc retained.
Listing NGR: SU7252472138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38848
- 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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