7 Gun Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
7 Gun Street
- WRENN ID
- south-granite-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 7 Gun Street, RG1 2JR
- OS grid reference
- SU 714 732
- Coordinates
- 51.45392, -0.97303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
7 Gun Street is a building that was originally part of a larger house from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It was extended at the rear in the 1950s or 1960s and is currently used for commercial purposes on the ground floor.
The building is constructed of silver grey brick laid in header bond, with red brick dressings and a plain tile roof on the front slope. The rear elevation, which is a later addition, is made of red brick laid in stretcher bond.
The structure has three storeys and is one bay wide. The front roof slope is pitched, while the rear roof has been raised behind the ridge to create a flat roof. The later rear extension is full height, flat-roofed, and approximately the same size as the front section, extending south from the rear elevation and offset to the east.
On the exterior, the ground floor features a 21st-century shopfront. The first and second floors each have a single timber sash window with two-over-two glazing, with the sash boxes set flush against the brickwork. These windows are topped with flat arches made of gauged red brick, and the red brick dressings extend the full height of the two storeys. A late 20th-century cornice of corbelled brickwork is present at the eaves. A brick chimney stack rises through the northern roof pitch on the eastern party wall.
At the rear, there is a late 20th-century extension, which may have been renewed or rebuilt in the early 2000s. This extension includes a timber sash window on each floor. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension with a monopitch roof attached to the south elevation.
Local climate
7 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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