35-38, BROAD STREET, 24-28, BROAD STREET, 2-32, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, 148,149 AND 150, FRIAR STREET, 1-31, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET

1-31, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113564
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: 35-38, BROAD STREET, 24-28, BROAD STREET, 2-32, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, 148,149 AND 150, FRIAR STREET, 1-31, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET
Statutory Address:: 1-31, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113564
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Aug-1979
List Entry Name:: 35-38, BROAD STREET, 24-28, BROAD STREET, 2-32, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, 148,149 AND 150, FRIAR STREET, 1-31, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1-31, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 148,149 AND 150, FRIAR STREET
Statutory Address 3:: 2-32, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET
Statutory Address 4:: 24-28, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 5:: 35-38, BROAD STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 1-31, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET
Statutory Address:: 148,149 AND 150, FRIAR STREET
Statutory Address:: 2-32, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET
Statutory Address:: 24-28, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:: 35-38, BROAD STREET

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:: SU7152373529

Details

In the entry for

BROAD STREET (north side)

Nos 24 to 28 (consec) ++ Nos 35 to 37 (consec)

1/558 the numbering shall be amended to read Nos 24, 26, and 28 and Nos 35, 36 and 37

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Nos 24 to 28 (consec) 2/558 Nos 35 to 37 (consec)

the numbering shall be amended to read Nos 24 to 28 (consec) Nos 35 to 38 (consec)

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BROAD STREET (north side) 2/558 Nos 24 to 28 (consec) Nos 35 to 37 (consec) the numbering shall be amended to read Nos 24, 26, and 28 and Nos 35, 36 and 37

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BROAD STREET (north side) 1/558 Nos 24 to 28 (consec) Nos 35 to 37 (consec) the numbering shall be amended to read Nos 24, 26, and 28 and Nos 35, 36 and 37

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FRIAR STREET (South Side) Nos 148 and 149

3/558 The numbering shall be amended to read Nos 148, 149 and 150

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FRIAR STEERT (South Side) Nos 148 and 149 2/558 The numbering shall be amended to read Nos 148, 149 and 150

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FRIAR STEERT (South Side) 2/558 Nos 148 and 149

The numbering shall be amended to read Nos 148, 149 and 150

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FRIAR STEERT (South Side) 2/558 Nos 148 and 149

The numbering shall be amended to read Nos 148, 149 and 150

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BROAD STREET (North Side)

Nos 24 to 28 (consec) and Nos 35 to 37 (consec) 3/558

The numbering shall be amended to read Nos 24 to 28 (consec) and Nos 35 to 38 (consec)

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BROAD STREET (North Side) 12/558 Nos 24 to 28 (consec) and Nos 35 to 37 (consec)

The numbering shall be amended to read Nos 24 to 28 (consec) and Nos 35 to 38 (consec)

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BROAD STREET (North Side)

1/558 Nos 24 to 28 (consec) and Nos 35 to 37 (consec)

The numbering shall be amended to read and 24 to 28 (consec) and Nos 35 to 38 (consec)

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QUEEN VICTORIA STREET 1. 5128 Nos 1 to 31 (odd) Nos 2 to 32 (even) SU 7173 NE 1/558 SU 7173 SW 2/558 SU 7173 SE 3/558 SU 7173 12/558 II

2. Including Nos 148 and 149 Friar Street and Nos 24 to 28 and 35 to 37 (consec) Broad Street. A circa 1894 commercial street with returns to Broad and Friar Streets. Probably by Joseph Morris. Dutch gabled free Baroque style. 3 1/2 storeys, yellow brick and terracotta with dividing Ionic pilasters. Dentil cornice. Pilasters to dormers, broken pediments above. An elongated pattern of shallow bays to 1st and 2nd floors 4:2:1:1:1:1:3. Mullion and transom window to bays, sashes with architraves (and pediments on 1st floor) to rest. Modern shopfronts, retaining cornice to fascia and scroll brackets to pilasters, only one shop retains prewar shopfront. Large returns to Broad Street. The return to east (No 28 Broad Street) supported by No 26 (dated 1894, grey brick with red terracotta dressings) and by No 24 (an early C20 Bank with -large shaped pediment doorway on corner to Cross Street; red brick with stone dressings and stone fret patterns to gables).

Listing NGR: SU7152373529

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 39134
Legacy System:: LBS

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