23, Eldon Square is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. House. 1 related planning application.
23, Eldon Square
- WRENN ID
- tenth-steel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- 23, Eldon Square, RG1 4DP
- OS grid reference
- SU 725 731
- Coordinates
- 51.45256, -0.95699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23 Eldon Square is a set-back house located at the angle of the square, built around the 1840s. It is constructed from dressed Bath stone, featuring a central ashlar section with a channelled ground floor and a slate roof. The building has two storeys and a basement. To the left, there is a gabled bay, while the central entrance bay is angled and has a shaped panel above the cornice. There is a lower bay to the right. The windows are plate glass sash. The front garden gate has re-entrant curved walls and is flanked by crenellation-capped piers typical of Eldon Square.
Local climate
23, Eldon Square 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 — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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