48 and 50, Russell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Pair of houses. 10 related planning applications.
48 and 50, Russell Street
- WRENN ID
- night-garret-river
- 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
- 48 and 50, Russell Street, RG1 7XH
- OS grid reference
- SU 707 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45243, -0.98332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 48 and 50 on Russell Street are a pair of buildings dating from around 1840. They are two storeys high, with an attic and a basement, constructed from Bath stone. The ground floor is channelled, and they feature a wide flat bracketed eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof. The buildings have four bays, with round-headed glazing bar sash windows framed by architrave surrounds, and raised arched panels on a band between the first-floor windows. On the ground floor, there are French casements that open onto a balcony, which has contemporary cast iron railings. Each building has two-panel doors set in two-storey recessed square bays, topped with a plain bracketed pediment hood that includes antefixae. No 48 has the inscription 'Bath Villa' in Gothic script, along with a hand and wreath door knocker, and retains some arrow-head rails. At the rear of No 48, there is a two-storey bow with three windows made of red brick headers.
Local climate
48 and 50, Russell 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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