13, Friar Street 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.
13, Friar Street
- WRENN ID
- idle-keystone-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- 13, Friar Street, RG1 1DB
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 735
- Coordinates
- 51.45683, -0.97135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 13 on Friar Street is a building dating from around the mid-18th century. It stands three storeys tall and features two narrow bays. The façade is constructed with silver grey brick headers and red brick dressings in roughly equal amounts. It has a small brick block cornice and a parapet, along with a band at the second-floor level. The roof is tiled, and there is a modern shopfront at ground level. The first-floor windows have segmental heads and have been shortened, while the second-floor window sashes are set in flush moulded surrounds, with the upper sashes featuring glazing bars. This building is included for its group value with other nearby structures.
Local climate
13, Friar 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- 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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