163, King Road is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. House.
163, King Road
- WRENN ID
- iron-balcony-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SU 724 733
- Coordinates
- 51.45417, -0.95895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 163 on King Road is a building dating from around 1840, though it may be older. It has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, constructed from Bath stone with chamfered quoins. The building features a moulded frieze and eaves cornice, a hipped slate roof, and three dormers with pedimented heads. On the first floor, there are three windows with architrave surrounds, which are late 19th-century sashes. The central entrance consists of an eight-panel door with an architrave surround, a frieze, and a cornice supported by console brackets. Nos 163-189 (odd) were likely designed by the same architect, with the exception of No 185, which is later, and No 167, which may be earlier. The building was formerly known as Wellington Place.
Local climate
163, King 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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