44 and 46 London Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Terraced shops and flats.
44 and 46 London Street
- WRENN ID
- tangled-doorway-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Terraced shops and flats
- Address
- 44 and 46 London Street, RG1 4SQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 717 731
- Coordinates
- 51.45274, -0.96852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
44 and 46 London Street are terraced shops and flats built in the mid-18th century and extended in the 20th century. The front elevation facing the street features painted Flemish and English-bond brickwork, while the rear is rendered. The roof is covered in plain clay tiles.
These two-storey buildings, each with an attic, have a carriage entrance at street level on 44 London Street that leads westward to Crossland Road. Both buildings have a long, two-storey gabled extension at the rear.
The east-facing façade of 44 and 46 London Street is similar, featuring a ten-pane glazed door, a large glazed shopfront, two casement windows on the first floor, and a gabled four-pane dormer window on the steeply-pitched clay tile gambrel roof. The northernmost ground-floor bay of 44 London Street serves as a carriageway with a timber lintel leading to the rear. There is a door and a window on the north elevation of 44 London Street, both of which are replacements from the 20th or 21st century. Most windows and doors on the east front, except for the dormer of 46 London Street, are also late-20th or 21st century replacements, including the first-floor casement windows, which are all made of uPVC. The roof covering of 44 London Street appears to have been replaced in the 20th century.
Local climate
44 and 46 London 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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