11 and 12 Gun Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. House, apartments.
11 and 12 Gun Street
- WRENN ID
- lesser-timber-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House, apartments
- Address
- 11 and 12 Gun Street, RG1 2JR
- OS grid reference
- SU 714 732
- Coordinates
- 51.45405, -0.97271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
11 and 12 Gun Street is an early 19th-century house or pair of houses that now function as apartments, featuring a modern shopfront. The building is made of red brick and has a slate roof.
It is three storeys tall, plus a basement, and spans three bays with brick walls laid in Flemish bond. The ground floor has been partially rebuilt, showcasing a modern plate glass shopfront and a 20th-century inset doorway under a segmental arch. Above the left and central bays, there are shallow brick piers and brackets that support three courses of corbelled brickwork.
The first and second floors each contain three recessed window openings with flat-arch heads made from gauged brickwork and stucco cills. The windows have uPVC casements that mimic the appearance of six over six sash windows. Above the second-floor windows, there is a stucco cornice and a parapet that appears to be coped in lead.
The side and rear walls have been rebuilt in red brick laid in header bond. The rear elevation features a single window on both the first and second floors. The roof is M-shaped, with two hipped slopes that create a central valley running perpendicular to Gun Street.
Local climate
11 and 12 Gun 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
- 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