Christchurch Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Vicarage. 2 related planning applications.
Christchurch Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-cupola-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- Christchurch Vicarage, 2, Vicarage Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 722 721
- Coordinates
- 51.44374, -0.96196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christchurch Vicarage, built in 1871 and designed by Alfred Waterhouse, is a two and three-storey building made of grey brick with red brick quoins and dressings. It features an old tile roof with gables, toothed brick eaves and verges, and red brick chimneys, including a large chimney to the east with grey brick tumbling. The windows are mostly segmental headed plate glass sashes. A distinctive chequer band of grey and red brickwork runs over the ground floor. The south elevation has one gabled break and two southern gables, with two bracketed lean-tos for French windows on the ground floor. The east front includes a lean-to roof with a small room above the porch, a hipped gable break that is two windows wide next to the chimney, which has an arched doorway at its base, and a projecting one-and-a-half storey outhouse adjacent to the coachhouse wing.
Local climate
Christchurch Vicarage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 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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