16-22, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. A C19 Residential.

16-22, London Road

WRENN ID
standing-zinc-starling
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 721 729
Coordinates
51.45085, -0.96299
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 16 to 22 on London Road, also known as Portland Place, date from around 1840. This is a three-storey and basement stucco terrace featuring a first-floor cill band, cornice, and blocking course. The slate roof is topped with ridge chimneys. Each house has two ranges of glazing bar sash windows, with incised architraves on the ground and first floors, and round-headed windows on the ground floor. The doorways are also round-headed, leading to six-panel doors with plain frames.

Local climate

16-22, London 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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