Music Room at Highdown School, Emmer Green is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Educational.

Music Room at Highdown School, Emmer Green

WRENN ID
ruined-cornice-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Educational
Address
Music Room at Highdown School, Emmer Green, Surley Row
OS grid reference
SU 713 763
Coordinates
51.48118, -0.97395
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The music room at Highdown School in Emmer Green is a building from the 17th century or early 18th century, originally a five-bay double-aisled barn that has been converted. It is constructed of brick and features an old tiled roof. There is a central entry on each side of the building, with timbered gable ends and entries, and quarter hipped gables to the main ridge, while part of the structure is weatherboarded. The building has modern windows and has undergone rearrangement of the interior. It is located near the former entrance to Caversham Grove.

Local climate

Music Room at Highdown School, Emmer Green sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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