47-48, Kenavon Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
47-48, Kenavon Drive
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pewter-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 47-48, Kenavon Drive, RG1 3DH
- OS grid reference
- SU 725 735
- Coordinates
- 51.45606, -0.95764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 47-48 on Kenavon Drive are a pair of houses built in 1873. They are constructed of red brick with blue brick patterning and have a clay tile roof, along with red brick chimneys. The houses feature a rear extension and are two storeys tall. The front elevation faces the River Kennet and includes a central pair of recessed porches accessed through pointed archways. Above the porches is a recessed panel that displays the date in blue brick, flanked by a brick corbel-table. Below the gables, which have ridges lower than the main roof, are single-storey bay windows beneath three-light windows with segmental heads. There are pairs of chimney stacks on the flank walls, and the windows are mainly 20th-century metal casements. These houses are noted for their stylistic and functional connection to the nearby sewage pumping station buildings.
Local climate
47-48, Kenavon Drive 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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