47 and 49 Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Terraced house.

47 and 49 Castle Street

WRENN ID
wild-gravel-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Terraced house
Address
47 and 49 Castle Street, RG1 7SR
OS grid reference
SU 712 731
Coordinates
51.45265, -0.97599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

47 and 49 Castle Street are a pair of early 19th century terraced houses that have been converted into offices. The main façades are made of Bath Stone, while the rear is constructed of red brick. The roofs are covered with slate, and the windows and doors are made of timber.

Each house has a roughly square plan, is three bays wide, and consists of three storeys plus a basement beneath a pitched roof with a parapet. They share a party wall stack.

The front façade features dressed Bath Stone with a rusticated ground floor, string courses at the first and second floors, and a projecting parapet cornice. The two houses have mirrored elevations. The entrances are located in the outer bays, featuring four-panelled doors with fanlights set within round-arched openings. The ground floor windows are round-headed sashes with glazing bars. On the first floor, the windows are six-over-six sashes, with the outer ones adorned with carved architraves and cornices, while the central window is set within an incised round arch. The second floor windows are three-over-three sashes with incised surrounds.

The rear elevation, made of red brick, shows some alterations but retains the mirrored design of the houses, with doors in the outer bays and stair windows above, along with a single window on each floor.

Local climate

47 and 49 Castle 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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