8, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 1, READING ROAD, 2, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 6, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 10, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 4, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 2 AND 3, THE SQUARE

1, READING ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1214419
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:
8, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 1, READING ROAD, 2, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 6, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 10, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 4, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 2 AND 3, THE SQUARE
Statutory Address:
1, READING ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1214419
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
8, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 1, READING ROAD, 2, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 6, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 10, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 4, WHITCHURCH ROAD, 2 AND 3, THE SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:
1, READING ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
10, WHITCHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address 3:
2 AND 3, THE SQUARE
Statutory Address 4:
2, WHITCHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address 5:
4, WHITCHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address 6:
6, WHITCHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address 7:
8, WHITCHURCH ROAD

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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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1, READING ROAD
Statutory Address:
10, WHITCHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address:
2 AND 3, THE SQUARE
Statutory Address:
2, WHITCHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address:
4, WHITCHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address:
6, WHITCHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address:
8, WHITCHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Pangbourne
National Grid Reference:
SU 63562 76546

Details

SU 6376 PANGBOURNE THE SQUARE (east side)

6/7 Nos. 2 And 3 (formerly listed as Lloyds Bank, Pangbourne Pharmacy, No.2 Midland Bank, Kennet Vintner Studio, R.S. Davies, Stanley Green) 7.12.71

G.V. II

Includes No.1 Reading Road and Nos. 2,4,6,8 and 10 Whitchurch Road. Row of 8 shops. Circa 1900, by Leonard Stokes in a free neo-Georgian style. Grey brick with red dressings. 2 large tile hung gables and tile roof, hipped to south-west. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. Deep eaves and 4 stacks. One dormer to south with glazing bar sash, and one to west. 4 dormers to north-west with 2-light casements, and large slightly projecting gabled semi dormer between first and second from north with semi circular window. West front: large projecting gable off-centre to right with first floor jetted on brackets; two paired attic glazing bar sashes; first floor canted bay with glazing bar sashes, 2 set back flanking glazing bar sashes, and pulvinated frieze; 3 central ground floor windows separated by Tuscan pilasters, two 4-panelled doors set back to left, and 5-panelled door set back to right with oval fanlight. First floor glazing bar sash to right and 2 glazing bar sashes on corner to right with pulvinated frieze. Five first floor 4-light casements to left. Ground floor plate glass shop window to right and angled half glazed door in right-hand corner. Vehicular entrance to left, and five C20 shop fronts to left set back behind colonnade with timber clad square piers. South front: large projecting gable as west front but with 3 ground floor windows to right separated by pilasters and two 2-panelled doors to left with rectangular overlight. 2 first floor glazing bar sashes on corner to left with pulvinated frieze: Ground floor plate glass window to left. B.0.E, Berkshire, p.192; Berkshire Architectural Guide, BetJeman and Piper, Murray, 1949, p.137.

Listing NGR: SU6356276546

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
399217
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 192
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 137

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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