Railings to George V Memorial Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Garden railings. 3 related planning applications.
Railings to George V Memorial Garden
- WRENN ID
- empty-hearth-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Garden railings
- Address
- Railings to George V Memorial Garden, Eldon Square
- OS grid reference
- SU 725 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45223, -0.95775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings to the George V Memorial Garden, dating from around 1840, are located in Eldon Square. The garden is enclosed on three sides by Eldon Road and Eldon Square. The railings are made of cast iron and feature mushroom-capped rails with ball-capped standards and scrolled stanchions. The corner piers are constructed from Bath stone, with chamfered corners that are stopped at the base, and have moulded capping topped with crenellation. There are similar gate piers to the east and west, as well as in the Eldon Square area. The gardens also contain a very large marble statue of the 1st Marquess of Reading, who died in 1935.
Local climate
Railings to George V Memorial Garden 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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