Talbot House is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Talbot House
- WRENN ID
- stony-vestry-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Talbot House, 55, Castle Street, RG1 7SN
- OS grid reference
- SU 712 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45239, -0.9765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Talbot House is an early 19th-century building located on Castle Street. It is three storeys high and constructed of stucco. The facade features four sash windows and has a cornice with a blocking course that includes a raised and panelled centre section. To the left, there is a single-storey entrance wing that has a six-panelled door set in an arched recess with archivolts. Above this entrance, the cornice and blocking course are adorned with a carved seated talbot. At the rear of the building, there is a canted bay that extends to the basement and ground floors. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.
Local climate
Talbot House 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 — 12 transactions since 1998
- 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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