59, Christchurch Road
59, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG2 7BD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321968
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 59, Christchurch Road
- Statutory Address:
- 59, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG2 7BD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321968
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-May-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 59, Christchurch Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 59, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG2 7BD
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:
- 59, Christchurch Road, Reading, RG2 7BD
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 72557 72125
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 January 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
SU 7272
9/439
CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (north side)
No 59
(Formerly listed as No 59 (Uplands), THE MOUNT, previously listed as No 59 (Uplands), The Mount, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (North Side))
GV
II
On corner with Christchurch Road. House for manager at Huntley and Palmer's Factory. Decorative features face approach from Christchurch. 1876. Two storeys gault brick with yellow brick cill and lintel bands and patterning to square corner turret. Moulded brick modillion eaves cornice. Hipped slate roof with fish-scale bands and two brick chimneys with cogged capping. Stop-moulded stone lintels. Plate glass sash windows with bracket cills. Four bays to road, angle turret to left, canted bay with turret roof to right. Centre projecting porch with pointed arch entrance and high parapet with moulded brick rosettes (reminiscent of Joseph Morris's work) and two order archway with label and chamfered side piers with stone floral caps. Decorative panels to door with applied patterned lintel. Contemporary conservatory on ground floor on outer facet of turret, it has a hipped glazed roof, crested ridge and painted panes. Angled return to west. Railings, standards retained.
Interior altered.
Listing NGR: SU7255772125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38850
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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