3 AND 5, SIDMOUTH STREET
3 AND 5, SIDMOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1156984
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, SIDMOUTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 5, SIDMOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1156984
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, SIDMOUTH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 5, SIDMOUTH STREET
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, SIDMOUTH 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:
- SU 72097 73168
Details
SIDMOUTH STREET 1. 5128 Nos 3 and 5 SU 7273 7/568 II 2. 1880s. 2½ or 3 storey pair in Butterfield Vicarage style. Sufficiently asymetrical to require a second glance. 1 bay each with 2 windows per floor (3, stepped, on ground floor; 1 on 2nd floor of no 5). Sash windows with marginned glazing. Stop moulded reveals with splayed cills. Red brick with subtle polychromy. Plinth. Band over ground floor string over 1st floor. String with over arch above arched 2nd floor windows of No 3 and above 1st floor windows of No 5. 2nd floor window of latter interrupts both the over arch string (which is dropped below it) and the string above. Stepped and moulded eaves courses, returned up verges of ½ hip of No 3. Tiled roofs, No 5 hipped with 2nd floor windows. ½ dormer (itself with half hipped gable). Large brick chimneys in valley between roofs. Entrances in extruded apsidal 2 storey extension on each side with arch windows and short turrets. Further bulbous extensions on garden side corners.
Listing NGR: SU7209773168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39166
- 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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