23 and 25, The Mount
23 and 25, The Mount, Reading, RG1 5HL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154876
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 23 and 25, The Mount
- Statutory Address:
- 23 and 25, The Mount, Reading, RG1 5HL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154876
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-May-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 23 and 25, The Mount
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23 and 25, The Mount, Reading, RG1 5HL
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:
- 23 and 25, The Mount, Reading, RG1 5HL
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 72527 72253
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 January 2026 to reformat the text to current standards
SU 7272
9/435
THE MOUNT
Nos 23 and 25
(Formerly listed as Nos 23 and 25, The Mount, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD)
GV
II
Reflected pair opposite Nos 8-22 (even) The Mount. Circa 1876. Gault brick (No 25 painted) with white brick bands at cill and lintel levels, cogging to porch and modillion eaves cornice. Two storey bays with turret roofs to right of No 23 and to left of No 25, stop moulded lintels. Cross and marginal glazed sash windows with bracket cills, outer pair and single one over porch, alternating white and yellow brick arches. No 25 has extra bay to left with one window first floor and chamfered corner on ground floor with window. This bay has coped gable with off-ridge chimneys. Double brackets to heavy porch hoods with arched entrance. Four-panel doors with rectangular overlights. Slate roofs, linked by garages, with end-chimneys having cogged capping. Railings, standards etc retained. Probably for under-managers of the Huntley and Palmer's Biscuit Factory.
Listing NGR: SU7252772253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38846
- 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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