139-141 Oxford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Pair of houses. 12 related planning applications.

139-141 Oxford Road

WRENN ID
sacred-railing-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Pair of houses
Address
139-141 Oxford Road, RG1 7UU
OS grid reference
SU 708 733
Coordinates
51.45481, -0.98209
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

139-141 Oxford Road is a pair of mid-19th century houses that feature ground-floor shops and are now divided into flats and shops. The building is constructed of red brick, which is painted on the north elevation, and has a stucco door surround at number 139. It includes iron and glazed shopfronts and a slate roof, rising to three storeys.

The exterior has four bays facing Oxford Road and two bays facing Russell Street. The hipped roof extends beyond the north and west sides, and there are two chimney stacks on the party wall between the two houses. On Oxford Road, the ground floor features two shopfronts with bracketed iron columns that rise from a simple plinth, separating full-height glazing and recessed doorways. The western shopfront is larger, and both have modern fascia boards. To the left of the smaller shopfront, there is a modern door set within a large channelled stucco surround. Each property has two uPVC casement windows on the first and second floors.

The west elevation facing Russell Street has a simple brick-arched doorway and the painted and rendered remains of a signage board on the ground floor, along with two uPVC casement windows on both the first and second floors. At the rear of the property, there is a two-storey apartment block that was built between 2012 and 2014.

Local climate

139-141 Oxford Road 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 12 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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