55, Baker Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. House. 4 related planning applications.
55, Baker Street
- WRENN ID
- open-string-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- 55, Baker Street, RG1 7XX
- OS grid reference
- SU 708 731
- Coordinates
- 51.45296, -0.98211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55 Baker Street is a building dating from around 1840 that has been altered. It stands three storeys tall and is finished in stucco, featuring a band above the ground floor, a small cornice, and a parapet with a shallow central pediment. The roof is covered with slate. The building has glazing bar sash windows, with the first floor windows having marginal glazing; there are two windows, including a flat segmental bay window on the first floor that has casements. The left window on the first floor has a moulded architrave with a cornice, while the ground floor windows have raised surrounds, architraves, and cornices. The ground floor also features a small arched door and a panel with two arched openings that have radiating and wreathed fanlights. A tablet on the wall indicates that this house was "Fox Talbot's Reading Establishment 1844-45." Notably, Nicholas Henneman, a pioneer photographer and associate of Fox Talbot, lived here.
Local climate
55, Baker 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 — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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