Screen Wall at North East End of Caversham Court Recreation Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Screen wall.
Screen Wall at North East End of Caversham Court Recreation Ground
- WRENN ID
- watchful-buttress-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Screen wall
- Address
- Screen Wall at North East End of Caversham Court Recreation Ground, Church Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 709 748
- Coordinates
- 51.46804, -0.97961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The screen wall at the north-east end of Caversham Court Recreation Ground dates from the early to mid-19th century and is likely designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. This Gothic structure is constructed of flint with an ashlar and brick basement, standing about 10 feet high, topped with a stone coping and featuring occasional pinnacles. The south side includes brick lacing courses and four lancet windows to the left. The entrances are framed by three bays on each side, supported by weathered buttresses and decorated with ogee-shaped panels. The wall returns to the north in brick with a chamfered coping and includes a gateway that presumably once linked to a stable court. This gateway features an ogee-headed archway with an ashlar front to the south, flanked by four bays with brick-lined ogee panels. A section of the wall was realigned in the early 20th century. The attribution to Pugin is based on the recollection of Marianne Loveday, a former leaseholder.
Local climate
Screen Wall at North East End of Caversham Court Recreation Ground 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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