41 London Street is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.

41 London Street

WRENN ID
unlit-marble-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Commercial building
Address
41 London Street, RG1 4PS
OS grid reference
SU 718 731
Coordinates
51.45268, -0.96808
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

41 London Street is a commercial building constructed between 1845 and 1875, with an extension added to the rear during the late 19th century. As of 2023, it is used as offices.

The building is made of red brick, featuring ashlar Bath Stone and grey stone dressings, topped with slate-covered roofs. It has an L-shaped plan, consisting of three storeys, with a larger original section facing London Street to the west and a smaller later section extending along the southern plot boundary to the east.

The main elevation on the west side has three bays and is designed in a loosely Italianate style. It features a symmetrical arrangement of three round-arched openings on each floor, with round arches made of alternating grey and Bath Stone voussoirs and raised keystones. Each arch is topped with a hood mould that has floral stops, and there are moulded imposts that unify the arches. Most openings contain two-over-two timber sash windows with a round-arched upper sash, supported by a sill band with corbels. The southernmost opening on the ground floor has a wide, six-panelled door with a radiating fanlight above. At the top of this elevation is a heavy Bath Stone cornice with modillions.

The original western range has a pitched roof that slopes east-west, with a hipped, full-width projection at the rear. The lower roof of the eastern extension features two intersecting hipped elements. A brick chimney stack rises through the northern slope of the hipped roof over the rear section of the western range.

Inside, heavy timber framing is visible at the ground floor from the passage between 41 and 39 London Street. The rear elevation of the primary range and the north elevation of the later extension have ranges of timber sash windows, while the south elevation is rendered and blank.

Local climate

41 London 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.

More on this building

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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