The Screens House is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1985. Sewage pumping station.
The Screens House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-eave-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1985
- Type
- Sewage pumping station
- Address
- The Screens House, Gasworks Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 725 735
- Coordinates
- 51.45593, -0.9579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Screens House is a building from around 1870, located at Blakes Lock Sewage Pumping Station on Gasworks Road. It features red brick walls with grey brick patterning and dressings, along with cast iron small port windows and a red tile roof. The building has a simple rectangular shape and was originally used to house filters for sewage. Its detailing is similar to that of the Engine House but is less elaborate. On the south elevation, which faces the River Kennet, there are round-headed lancet windows on either side, flanking three full-height doorways that are separated by narrow brick piers. These doorways are fitted with boarded doors, with the outer ones being double-leaf and the center one being single. The roof is hipped to the right and left at the ridge and features a large timber louver topped with a pyramidal slated roof and a turned finial.
Local climate
The Screens 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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