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
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1973
- Type
- Telephone exchange
- Address
- Telephone Exchange, 41-45, Minster Street, RG1 2JB
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 733
- Coordinates
- 51.45456, -0.97161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Telephone Exchange, located at Minster Street, was built around 1900 and designed by architect Leonard Aloysius Stokes, who aimed to create a distinct British architectural style free from historical revivals. The building is three stories tall, constructed of red brick with stone dressings in a simplified Georgian style, and features a concealed roof. It is five bays wide, with the end bays slightly projecting. On the right side, there is a door with a cornice and a lunette window above it, while the left side has a similarly treated window. The central three bays are divided by chamfered piers that support a cornice at the second floor level. Each floor has large windows, with six windows on the second floor, and single sash windows in the breaks.
Local climate
Telephone Exchange 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 — 17 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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