3 and 5, Sidmouth Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Residential.

3 and 5, Sidmouth Street

WRENN ID
fallow-corridor-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Residential
OS grid reference
SU 720 731
Coordinates
51.45291, -0.96379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 3 and 5 Sidmouth Street are a pair of buildings from the 1880s, designed in the Butterfield Vicarage style. They are asymmetrical, which makes them visually interesting. Each building has one bay with two windows per floor, except for No 3, which has three windows on the ground floor and No 5, which has one window on the second floor. The windows are sash style with marginned glazing and feature stop-moulded reveals with splayed cills. The buildings are constructed of red brick with subtle polychromy and have a plinth, a band over the ground floor string, and an additional string above the arched second-floor windows of No 3 and the first-floor windows of No 5. The second-floor window of No 5 interrupts the over-arch string, which drops below it. The eaves have stepped and moulded courses, which return up the verges of the half-hip roof of No 3. The roofs are tiled, with No 5 having a hipped roof that includes second-floor windows and a half dormer with a half-hipped gable. There are large brick chimneys situated in the valley between the roofs. Each building has an entrance in an extruded apsidal two-storey extension on either side, featuring arched windows and short turrets, along with bulbous extensions on the garden side corners.

Local climate

3 and 5, Sidmouth Street 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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