11, Friar Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. House. 6 related planning applications.

11, Friar Street

WRENN ID
winding-balcony-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 1957
Type
House
Address
11, Friar Street, RG1 1EW
OS grid reference
SU 715 735
Coordinates
51.45685, -0.97115
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 11 Friar Street is an early to mid-18th century building that stands three and a half storeys tall. It features silver grey brick headers with red brick dressings, along with a moulded brick cornice and parapet. A projecting string course is located at the second floor level. The building has a mansarded tile roof with two three-light dormers and four ranges of glazing bar sash windows. The ground floor has a modern shop front, with only the cornice remaining from a previous 20th-century shop front.

Local climate

11, Friar 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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