2 AND 4, READING ROAD
2 AND 4, READING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369175
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, READING ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 4, READING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369175
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, READING ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 4, READING ROAD
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:
- 2 AND 4, READING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-on-Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 76106 82478
Details
1. 5355
SU 7582 HENLEY-ON-THAMES READING ROAD (west side)
1/366 Nos 2 and 4
II GV
2. House, now shop and garage premises. C15 remodelled early C19; later additions and alterations. Timber-framed with red-brick cladding and front roughcast; plain tile roof. Probably originally an open-hall house. 2 storeys. Irregular front with 4 lst-floor windows, early C19 stair wing added to rear left; C20 garage building added to rear centre and left not of special interest. Continuous C20 shop front with glazed double doors to right and half-glazed door to left. 1st-floor windows have C19 casements, 1st and 3rd from left of 2 lights, 4th of 3 lights and 2nd blind; and mid-C19 hoodmoulds. Rear: rectangular-panelled timber frame visible; old 6-panel door (some panels now glazed) to centre; near-central external stack. Interior: timber frame appears to be largely intact: left-hand (southern bay) has 2 closely-spaced large-scantling tie-beams on jowelled wall posts to rear (west) wall which may indicated position of former smoke bay; right-hand (northern bay) has curved wind braces up to purlins; upper roof structure not visible. In stair wing, dog-leg stair with square section balusters, columnar newels, and wood handrail; at head of stairs a 2-light arched window. There is a Buckler drawing (1827) of the house in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Building unoccupied October 1989. (Information from Henley on Thames Archaeological and Historical Group).
Listing NGR: SU7610682478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246387
- 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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