Former Rising Sun Temperance Tavern
FORMER RISING SUN TEMPERANCE TAVERN, 30, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248737
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Rising Sun Temperance Tavern
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER RISING SUN TEMPERANCE TAVERN, 30, SILVER STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248737
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Rising Sun Temperance Tavern
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER RISING SUN TEMPERANCE TAVERN, 30, SILVER 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:
- FORMER RISING SUN TEMPERANCE TAVERN, 30, SILVER 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 71905 72801
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 20 February 2023 to amend the description, add a source and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 7172 NE
4/620
SILVER STREET (west side) Number 30, READING
Former Rising Sun Temperance Tavern
II
Former temperance tavern. Dated 1877 with additions and alterations
of 1885. By Alfred Waterhouse. For St Giles Parish Council, at the
instigation of Mrs Waterhouse. Grey brick in English bond with red brick
quoins, arches, bands, and decorative features; ashlar plinth band, sills,
lintels, and bands (clasping rainwater pipes). Rear of red brick. Plain tile
roof with crested ridge tiles. Brick stacks at left end and to ridge of rear
wing. 2 storeys with attic, 4 bays; wing to rear right of 2 storeys,
2 bays. Windows, other than to ground floor at front, have wooden
mullions and transoms, stone sills and lintels, and brick relieving
arches; those of left return and rear have leaded upper lights with
coloured glass. Entrance front; chamfered plinth. Step up to
entrance, on right, which has door of 9 raised and fielded panels,
overlight, and hollow moulded surround. Entrance and ground-floor
windows all segmental arched below continuous hoodmould, the windows
with vertical glazing bars (lower parts boarded up). Projecting
double-sided metal tavern sign, some letters missing. 3-light windows
to 1st floor, with decorative brickwork to tympana. Brick modillions
to eaves. 2-light attic windows rising through eaves, those at centre
paired in dated, pilastered, gable with stepped, logged, eaves; outer
windows below finialled hipped roofs. Left return; 2 bays. 2-light
windows except for 1-light attic windows which flank corbelled
external stack. Corbelled attic pilasters support stepped, logged,
eaves. Rear; two lst-floor windows (of 2 and 3 lights); 1 attic
window. Wing return has door of left of paired 1-light windows, and
3-light windows over. Interior; not inspected, but reported to retain
original stair, fireplaces, and some ceiling cornices.
Listing NGR: SU7190572801
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39283
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gold, Sidney, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects at Reading, (1999), 200
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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