144a-152, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Terrace.
144a-152, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- dusted-iron-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Terrace
- OS grid reference
- SU 709 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45173, -0.98095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 144A to 152 on Castle Street is an early 19th-century symmetrical terrace. The building has four storeys and a basement, constructed from stucco on Bath stone. A string course runs at the first floor level, and the ground floor features channelled detailing. The terrace is topped with a cornice and blocking course, and it has a slate roof. The end houses project slightly forward.
The upper floors have 13 windows with cross-glazed and glazing bar sashes, while the road-facing side has seven windows and three doors. The first-floor windows have semi-circular heads, and the end bays include contemporary balconies. Three windows on the second floor are adorned with bracketed cornices.
On the ground floor, there is a verandah between the projecting bays, featuring decorative cast iron railings and standards. French casement windows open onto the verandahs. The carriage sweep includes end piers for gates, although one is missing.
Local climate
144a-152, Castle 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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