12, Friar Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. House.
12, Friar Street
- WRENN ID
- drifting-facade-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 735
- Coordinates
- 51.45684, -0.97128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 12 on Friar Street is an early to mid-19th century building that forms a pair with No 11. It stands three and a half storeys tall, constructed with silver grey headers and red brick dressings. The building features a moulded brick cornice and parapet, along with a projecting string course at the second floor. The ground floor has two modern shop fronts, while the upper floors contain four ranges of modern glazing bar sash windows set in flush framed surrounds. The roof is covered with old tiles, and the attic has been modernised with two large dormers.
Local climate
12, 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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