Southcote Lodge and Garden Walls to East and West is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. House. 6 related planning applications.

Southcote Lodge and Garden Walls to East and West

WRENN ID
odd-slate-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
House
Address
Southcote Lodge and Garden Walls to East and West, Burghfield Road, RG30 3NE
OS grid reference
SU 683 716
Coordinates
51.43975, -1.01774
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Southcote Lodge, dating from the mid-18th century and incorporating parts of an earlier building, is a rectangular main block that rises 3 and a half storeys on the south side and 2 and a half storeys with flanking 2-storey wings on the north. The entrance front features silver grey brick with red window dressings and a modern central dormer. It has glazing bar sash windows, with three on the first floor, and a 19th-century glazed porch across the ground floor between the wings. The red brick wings project two windows in depth, which are blind, and each has one hipped dormer and one window at the north end. The building is topped with an old tile roof.

Flanking the lodge are curved garden walls that form one side of a small oval court. The south side of the lodge originally had a five-window front but now features a five-window mid-19th-century full-height bay to the left. There is a half-glazed late 18th-century door leading to the garden, complete with a bracketed hood and stone steps. The interior retains several good contemporary features, including fireplaces, plasterwork, and a staircase. This house was once the residence of John Blagrave, a mathematician. To the west, there is an 8-foot brick wall with chamfered capping, approximately 50 yards long, which returns to the south along the road. This wall is partly from the 18th century, with one brick inscribed with graffiti reading "E B 1720."

Local climate

Southcote Lodge and Garden Walls to East and West receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 40 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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