FORMER RISING SUN TEMPERANCE TAVERN

FORMER RISING SUN TEMPERANCE TAVERN, 30, SILVER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248737
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-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-Sep-1991
List Entry Name:: FORMER RISING SUN TEMPERANCE TAVERN
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER RISING SUN TEMPERANCE TAVERN, 30, SILVER 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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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.

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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

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gold, Sidney, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects at Reading, (1999), 200

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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.