Nos 32 to 40, London Road

32-40, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AG

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321928
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1957
List Entry Name:: Nos 32 to 40, London Road
Statutory Address:: 32-40, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321928
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: Nos 32 to 40, London Road
Statutory Address 1:: 32-40, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AG

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:: 32-40, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AG

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 72225 72954

Details

SU 7272 9/164

LONDON ROAD (south side) Nos 32 to 40 (even)

(Formerly listed as Terrace of houses immediately west of Greenbank)

22.3.57. GV II

Formerly part of Portland Place and including Portland House (No 32). Before 1802. Three storeys and basement, western part with attic. Red brick. Bath stone string over basement windows. Stucco string at first floor level. Simple stucco cornice and brick parapet over. Part mansard old tile roof, part slate roof. Six dormer windows, glazing bar sash windows. Fifteen to upper floors with small wrought iron balconies on first floor. Ground floor altered now fourteen windows and one doorway to left and six panelled door with radiating fanlight and Doric portico, frieze cornice and blocking course. Detached corresponding doorway to right lacks fanlight. Contemporary arrow head railings.

Listing NGR: SU7222572954

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Legacy System:: LBS

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British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 4 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

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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.