187 AND 189, KINGS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321921
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: 187 AND 189, KINGS ROAD
Statutory Address:: 187 AND 189, KINGS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321921
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: 187 AND 189, KINGS ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 187 AND 189, KINGS ROAD

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:: 187 AND 189, KINGS ROAD

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 72574 73292

Details

KINGS ROAD 1. 5128 (North Side) Nos 187 and-189 SU 7273 7/139 24.10.74. II GV 2. After 1832, part of Waterloo Place. 3 storeys and basement. Bath stone. Slate roof. Rusticated ground floor, moulded let floor cill string. Dentil cornice entablature and blocking course. A symmetrical pair of houses. Bays, ground and let floors retain most glazing bar sashes. 1st floor windows have architrave surround and moulded cornice on console brackets. 2 windows on ground floor with contemporary balconies and cast-iron balustrades (honey-suckle pattern). 6 panel doors (part glazed) at sides under Doric porches, approached by steps. 2 storey extension to right of No 189 with 1 window. The contemporary Orts Road 'service' houses have recently (1977) been demolished.

Listing NGR: SU7257473292

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Legacy System number:: 38989
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.