Sargents Embrook is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1975. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
Sargents Embrook
- WRENN ID
- knotted-kitchen-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1975
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Sargents Embrook, 119 and 121, London Street, RG1 4QA
- OS grid reference
- SU 718 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45074, -0.96699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sargents Embrook is an early to mid-18th century building located on London Street. It has two storeys and an attic, with significant distortion to the front due to early subsidence, which has since been consolidated. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring silver grey arches above the first-floor windows, a silver grey brick frieze and cornice with red squares in the frieze, and rusticated painted brick quoins. It has a plain parapet and an old tiled roof, with three gabled dormers. The first floor has five segmental-headed windows that do not have glazing bars. The shop front, which dates from the early 19th century, is plain and features Doric pilasters and a cornice, also without glazing bars. This building was originally the Huntley and Palmer shop. Inside, there is a biscuit oven or fireplace that has been retained but is now boxed in. The northeast roof on the first floor includes an arch-headed corner cupboard with raised and fielded panels. There is a through passage to the south that shows traces of timbering.
Local climate
Sargents Embrook 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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