196-200, Kings Road is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1974. Residential. 2 related planning applications.

196-200, Kings Road

WRENN ID
upper-window-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 1974
Type
Residential
OS grid reference
SU 724 732
Coordinates
51.45372, -0.95899
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Nos 196 to 200 on Kings Road, built in the 1840s, are a block of three houses formerly known as Wilberforce Place. The houses have been restored and feature plain Bath stone ashlar fronts with slate roofs. Number 198 is two storeys tall with a basement, displaying three windows on the first floor that have raised surrounds and glazing bar sashes with marginal glazing. On the ground floor, there are two French casement windows with balconies and contemporary cast iron rails, alongside a central two-panel door with a rectangular over-light. The door has a raised surround with a moulded pediment decorated with corner stele. Numbers 196 and 200 are three-storey gable end pavilions with channelled ground floors beneath an impost string of round-headed windows, which include apron panels below. Each has one window with cast iron rails on the side elevations. There are modern extensions: No 196 features a two-storey bay to the right, while No 200 has a replica style two plus four bay extension facing Eldon Road.

Local climate

196-200, Kings Road 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
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 2006
  • 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
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