78-84, Southampton Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. A C19 Terrace of houses.
78-84, Southampton Street
- WRENN ID
- dusted-stronghold-aspen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Period
- C19
- Address
- 78-84, Southampton Street, RG1 2QR
- OS grid reference
- SU 716 728
- Coordinates
- 51.45008, -0.97025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 78 to 84 on Southampton Street are a terrace of houses built in 1810 by Richard Billing, Senior. This three-storey building includes a basement and attic, constructed of brick with a stucco string course at the first-floor level and a smaller string course about 2 feet 6 inches above. The design features a small brick cornice string made up of a course of 4½ inch headers and a projecting course of brickwork. The parapet has stone coping, and the roof is covered with slate.
Each house has two semi-circular headed dormer windows with radiating glazing bars in the sashes. The windows are arranged in two ranges, with the first-floor windows being tall and having floor-level cills, set in segmental headed recesses. Each house also features elliptical curved balconies made of wrought iron with cast lead ornament. The doorways are recessed and have six-panel doors, flanked by fluted Greek Doric columns that support a key pattern frieze and a segmental radiating fanlight. The upper windows are grouped in pairs, creating a rhythmic pattern of 2-blank-2-blank, and so on.
Local climate
78-84, Southampton 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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