Telephone Exchange is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1973. Telephone exchange. 17 related planning applications.
Telephone Exchange
- WRENN ID
- tilted-merlon-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1973
- Type
- Telephone exchange
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MINSTER STREET 1. 5128 (South Side) No 41 to 45 (consec) (Telephone Exchange) SU 7173 SE 3/13lA 26.7.73. II 2. Circa 1900. Architect Leonard Aloysius Stokes (a Voysey/Lethaby follower who had married Miss Gane daughter of the General Manager of the National Telephone Company). His aim was to develop a British style of architecture, free from revivals of past styles. The building consequently appears somewhat plain. 3 storeys of red brick with stone dressings in an attenuated Georgian style. Concealed roof. 5 bays wide, the end bays project slightly. To right is door with cornice and lunette window above. To left a window treated in a similar runner. Centre 3 bays divided by chamfered piers supporting cornice at 2nd floor level. Large windows between on each floor, 6 windows on 2nd floor. Single sash windows in breaks.
Listing NGR: SU7155173343
Detailed Attributes
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