St David's Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. A C19 Hall. 5 related planning applications.
St David's Hall
- WRENN ID
- secret-sandstone-indigo
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- St David's Hall, 24-30, London Road, RG1 5AG
- OS grid reference
- SU 721 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45089, -0.96256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St David's Hall, formerly known as Portland Place, is a building from the 1830s, likely designed by the local architect Billing. It stands four storeys high with a basement and features a front made of Bath stone on a brick structure. Originally, it was composed of four or possibly five houses. The end houses project slightly and are adorned with angle pilasters, moulded pediments above, an entablature, and a blocking course with a central panel on the main part. The roof is slate and includes large stacks with moulded capping.
The ground floor is rusticated, and there is a moulded string at the first-floor level. The central section boasts a continuous Greek Doric colonnade at the ground floor, with cast-iron balcony railings above. The building has a window arrangement of three, six, and three, featuring glazing bar sashes. The second and fourth windows of the central first floor are framed with moulded architrave surrounds and have pediments above. The first-floor windows on the outer sections have cast-iron balconies, while the central window has a moulded architrave surround and a cornice above.
Flanking the central section are Greek Doric porticoes with a blocking course in small recessed two-storey extensions, which contain small doors topped with rectangular fanlights and oval-pattern glazing. In the centre, there are two doors, each with four upper glazed panels and oval-pattern fanlights. Arrowhead railings are present in the areas.
Local climate
St David's Hall 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
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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