26, Southampton Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. House.
26, Southampton Street
- WRENN ID
- fallow-merlon-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45123, -0.97135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 Southampton Street is an early 19th-century building that stands at 2 and a half storeys tall and has been altered over time. The structure features grey brick headers with red brick dressings and quoins, topped by a tiled roof with a cogged eaves cornice. The right side of the house retains its original character, showcasing a single window with a tripartite casement that has a segmental head on the ground floor, along with a mansard roof that includes an end chimney and a dormer. The left side may have been rebuilt in the 20th century, showing a slight break from the original design. It has one range of windows, featuring a three-light casement on the ground floor and a five-light, likely reused, oak mullion casement on the first floor. This side also has a parapet with a cogged cope and lacks an attic. The left side is treated similarly to the adjacent No 28. The garden railings are made of cast iron, designed with arrowhead tops and patterned bars leading to the gate.
Local climate
26, Southampton 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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