Simmonds Malthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Malthouse. 6 related planning applications.
Simmonds Malthouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-cinder-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Malthouse
- Address
- Simmonds Malthouse, Fobney Street, RG1 6BY
- OS grid reference
- SU 713 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45133, -0.97479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Simmonds Malthouse is a building said to date from the 1850s, attributed to one of the Briant architects. It is constructed of red brick and features an overlapped eaves cornice. The south side has two gables with hipped roofs and vents at the north end. There is a modern entrance located at the north-east. The south end displays cast iron tie rods in two stages to the south and four stages to the east, decorated with a hops pattern. The ground floor and upper part have small segmental headed windows. The west side consists of three bays with dividing piers, and two bays feature hop leaf tie rods. The roof is slate and hipped. Overall, it is a plain but impressive building, connected on the north side to a later malthouse. The interior is accessed from the east through a wide entrance with a segmental head, although the lower floors have been altered.
Local climate
Simmonds Malthouse 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
- Sale history — 31 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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