Kendrick View is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. House. 6 related planning applications.
Kendrick View
- WRENN ID
- dusk-kitchen-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kendrick View, 39, London Road, RG1 5BL
- OS grid reference
- SU 720 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45097, -0.96475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kendrick View, located at No. 39 on London Road, is a mid to late 18th-century building that stands three storeys high with a basement. It features plum-coloured brick and has a painted brick dentil cornice. The building is topped with an old tile roof that has coped verges and end chimneys. The façade includes six ranges of glazing bar sash windows, with one panel on the second floor and two on the first floor. The entrance boasts a six-panel door with a radiating and wreathed fanlight above, set in an arched recess with panelled reveals. The doorcase is adorned with engaged Doric columns, a broken entablature, and a moulded open pediment, with moulded stone steps leading up to it.
Across the ground floor, there is an early 19th-century six-bay wooden patterned trellis arcaded verandah. To the left, there is a single-storey extension that has been altered; it is constructed of red brick with a grey brick string course and features a deep parapet with two grey brick panels, each containing an elliptical roundel, along with one window and one door. The extension has contemporary rails with a modern gate.
Historically, Kendrick View was home to Mary Russell Milford (1787-1855), a well-known local author, as noted by a wall tablet. It was also inhabited by two local astronomers, the Reverend Richard Sheepshanks and his sister Ann. Inside, the building features a contemporary staircase with a curled rail at the base.
Local climate
Kendrick View 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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