All Saints Infants School and Playground Area Railings to West is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1995. School. 10 related planning applications.

All Saints Infants School and Playground Area Railings to West

WRENN ID
patient-casement-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1995
Type
School
Address
All Saints Infants School and Playground Area Railings to West, Brownlow Road, RG1 6NP
OS grid reference
SU 703 730
Coordinates
51.45166, -0.98839
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

All Saints Infants School is a Church of England infants school built between 1865 and 1866 by J.P. St Aubyn, with a late 20th-century extension. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring blue brick bands and voussoirs, along with Bath stone windows. It has clay plain tile roofs with gabled ends, which include moulded bargeboards supported on purlin ends and crested ridge tiles. The southwest gable is adorned with a terracotta patonce cross.

The school has a T-shaped plan with two schoolrooms arranged at right angles, a porch, and a master's room or office located in the southeast angle. The exterior is single-storey and asymmetrical, with a south front consisting of three bays and gables on both ends. The right gable is smaller and projects further, with a porch featuring a hipped roof, three lancets at the front, and a pointed arch doorway on the side that has a plank door with wrought-iron hinges. Behind the porch is a smaller gable with two lancets. The main gables on either side have large three-light windows with Geometric tracery, set within toothed brick pointed arches with blue brick voussoirs.

On the west side of the building, there are three pairs of lancets situated between brick buttresses with set-offs, and a louvred bellcote with a slate spire is positioned on the ridge of the roof. At the rear, there are late 20th-century single-storey flat-roof extensions to the left of the gable. The playground area railings to the west feature forked shafts and fleur-de-lis stanchions with scroll brackets.

The interior remains virtually unaltered, with the two schoolrooms open to arch-braced roof trusses supported on corbels. The west schoolroom contains a boxed-in bell mechanism at the apex of the roof. The master's room or office and the vestibule showcase exposed braced common-rafter roof structures, and there are pointed arch plank doors along with sliding doors between the schoolrooms.

Local climate

All Saints Infants School and Playground Area Railings to West 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 10 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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