No 44 (The Acacias) and Railings to Street the Acacias is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
No 44 (The Acacias) and Railings to Street the Acacias
- WRENN ID
- white-chancel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- No 44 (The Acacias) and Railings to Street the Acacias, London Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 722 729
- Coordinates
- 51.451, -0.96118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 44, known as The Acacias, is a detached villa located on London Road, dating from before 1840, as shown on the Weller map. This two-storey building, with a basement, is constructed of Bath stone and features a hipped slate roof and a moulded eaves cornice. The first floor has three windows, while the ground floor has two, all of which are glazing bar sashes flanked by full-height pilaster strips. The central door is topped with a segmental patterned fanlight and is accessed via a plain Greek Doric porch set on stone steps.
On the east side, there are two ground floor bow windows, which are believed to be alterations made by architect Waterhouse for William Isaac Palmer, who was associated with Huntley and Palmers. One of these bows includes stairs leading to the basement. At the rear, there is a good conservatory accompanied by an extensive rockery. The villa is connected to Greenbank by a three-storey extension featuring three windows, along with a two-storey pavilion to the right.
Inside, the villa showcases several reeded features, including the surround of the front door and the fireplace in the ground floor back room. The property also boasts excellent contemporary ironwork along the street, including spearhead railings, box panel standards, and double gates.
Local climate
No 44 (The Acacias) and Railings to Street the Acacias 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Greenbank
- Railings to Road from Albion Place to Opposite Redlands Road
- Garden Wall to North and East of the Acacias Wall to Garden of the Acacias
- Nos 32 to 40, London Road
- University of Reading War Memorial
- Great Hall of the University of Reading
- St David's Hall
- Albion Place
- 71 and 73, London Road
- Main block and flanking wings at Royal Berkshire Hospital