The Mount is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Mount
- WRENN ID
- odd-gable-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Mount, 38 and 40, RG1 5HL
- OS grid reference
- SU 725 721
- Coordinates
- 51.44375, -0.95789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mount is a pair of houses dating to approximately 1876, situated on Christchurch Road. They are built of gault brick with lighter brick bands at the window sill and lintel levels. The houses have a hipped slate roof with a modillion eaves cornice and four end chimneys. Each house has four windows on the first floor, with the ground floor featuring projecting bays. The first-floor windows have moulded brick arches, while the bays have a cogged brick cornice and stone lintels with stop-moulding. All windows are marginally glazed sashes. The central entrances have paired four-panel doors with glazed upper lights, set within arched surrounds with a heavy bracketed hood and a cogged brick cornice. The houses are linked to number 57A via garden entrances, with a short section of wall punctuated by a pair of gables with a moulded coping. Original iron railings and standards are also present.
Local climate
The Mount receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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