147, Friar Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.
147, Friar Street
- WRENN ID
- scattered-outpost-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- SU 714 735
- Coordinates
- 51.45661, -0.97235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 147 Friar Street is a commercial building dating from around the 1880s. It has a three-and-a-half storey façade made of painted brick, featuring stone voussoirs and dressings, a cornice, and a parapet. The building includes three high segmental-headed dormers with ramped moulded coping and modillion cornices, with the centre dormer having a two-light window. The second floor has three pairs of plate glass sash windows. On the first floor, there are four depressed arches beneath a cornice and fascia, flanked by outer pilasters and dividing fluted columns topped with Corinthian capitals. The ground floor shop front, which has a similar cornice and fascia design, features a recessed entrance. The two-storey shop front is the main point of interest for this building.
Local climate
147, Friar 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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