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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic England listing
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.
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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
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