67 and 68, Broad Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial building. 21 related planning applications.
67 and 68, Broad Street
- WRENN ID
- tenth-moat-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 67 and 68, Broad Street, RG1 2AF
- OS grid reference
- SU 713 734
- Coordinates
- 51.45573, -0.9747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 67 and 68 on Broad Street were built in the 1890s or around 1900 and are designed in a Norman Shaw style. The building has three storeys and an attic, constructed from grey brick with red brick quoins. There is a decorative terracotta band with dentil strips above the second floor. To the left, there is a two-storey recessed bay with five lights, featuring stucco decoration, small pane upper windows, and a pediment above the central windows. A similar design is found on the right side, but only on the second floor, as the first floor has been altered for a slightly later shop window that includes carved pairs of fascia brackets. The cornice is adorned with carved stucco scroll brackets, and there is an entablature with stucco acanthus decoration. A central rainwater head is present, and the roof is a mansard style covered with tiles, featuring a dentil purlin and two corniced dormers with two lights each, using glazing bar sashes, flanking a panel. The ridge is crested, and there are end chimneys with coped verges. The ground floor has modern shop fronts. This building is noted as an interesting example of the Norman Shaw style.
Local climate
67 and 68, Broad Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 21 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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