68 London Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. A Early-C19 House/shop. 1 related planning application.
68 London Street
- WRENN ID
- salt-threshold-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House/shop
- Address
- 68 London Street, RG1 4SQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 717 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45207, -0.96831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, likely originally a shop with living space above, dating from the early 19th century. It has been altered in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The house is built as a long, rectangular shape, running east to west, with its main facade facing east onto London Street. The east-facing front is stuccoed and painted, while the rear is of red brick. The roof is slated and features a stuccoed chimney stack.
The front elevation is two windows wide and extends over four storeys, including a basement level. The ground floor has been updated with a banded stone facade, featuring a doorway to the south and two square windows placed high above the basement. Horizontal string courses divide the upper floors. Large first-floor window openings have moulded architraves and contain six-over-six sash windows. Smaller second-floor windows have three-over-six sashes, and the square attic windows feature three-over-three sashes. A cornice with a moulded blocking course sits below a shallow pediment.
Local climate
68 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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