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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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