71 and 73, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.

71 and 73, London Road

WRENN ID
salt-turret-poplar
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
71 and 73, London Road, RG1 5BS
OS grid reference
SU 723 730
Coordinates
51.45167, -0.95988
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

71 and 73 London Road is an early 19th-century building that now functions as part of the hospital offices. It stands three storeys high with a basement, featuring a stucco exterior that has a rusticated ground floor and quoins. The first floor is adorned with a moulded cornice. The upper two floors are framed by four Roman Ionic pilasters, which are complemented by a plain frieze and a moulded and bracketed cornice that projects over the pilasters. The building has a blocking course and a slate roof. There are six ranges of glazing bar sash windows with moulded architraves; the first-floor windows have eared cornices, while the ground floor features round-headed windows set in arched recesses with panels below. Access to the building is from the side, and it has a large central stuccoed chimney stack.

Local climate

71 and 73, London Road 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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