Lodge to Whiteknights Park House is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Lodge. 3 related planning applications.

Lodge to Whiteknights Park House

WRENN ID
other-copper-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Lodge
Address
Lodge to Whiteknights Park House, 31, Shinfield Road, RG2 7BN
OS grid reference
SU 729 717
Coordinates
51.44042, -0.95171
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lodge to Whiteknights Park House is a late 19th-century single-storey building located on Shinfield Road. It features an asymmetrical design, constructed of red brick with a pattern of grey headers. The roof is slate, and the front has two gables with decorative bargeboards. To the right, there is a porch, and to the left, a bay window. The lodge is topped with paired octagonal chimneys and has a gabled projection facing the road. The eastern gable showcases decorative timbering. Additionally, there is a brick gate pier and a quadrant dwarf wall with railings.

Local climate

Lodge to Whiteknights Park House 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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