8, Paddock Road is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
8, Paddock Road
- WRENN ID
- lunar-cinder-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 8, Paddock Road, RG4 5BY
- OS grid reference
- SU 725 744
- Coordinates
- 51.46471, -0.95714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-18th century cottage located on Paddock Road. It is two stories high and has three bays. The walls are flint with brick quoins, a raised brick string course above the ground floor windows, and a flush brick band above the first floor windows. The roof is slate-covered with external chimneys. The windows are casements, and the first floor lintels feature ribbon ornamentation. The central entrance has a flat, moulded hood supported by delicate, moulded and fluted Doric columns.
Local climate
8, Paddock 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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