Former Rising Sun Temperance Tavern

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SU 7172 NE 4/620

SILVER STREET (west side) Number 30, READING

Former Rising Sun Temperance Tavern

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Former temperance tavern. Dated 1877 with additions and alterations of 1885. By Alfred Waterhouse. For St Giles Parish Council, at the instigation of Mrs Waterhouse. Grey brick in English bond with red brick quoins, arches, bands, and decorative features; ashlar plinth band, sills, lintels, and bands (clasping rainwater pipes). Rear of red brick. Plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles. Brick stacks at left end and to ridge of rear wing. 2 storeys with attic, 4 bays; wing to rear right of 2 storeys, 2 bays. Windows, other than to ground floor at front, have wooden mullions and transoms, stone sills and lintels, and brick relieving arches; those of left return and rear have leaded upper lights with coloured glass. Entrance front; chamfered plinth. Step up to entrance, on right, which has door of 9 raised and fielded panels, overlight, and hollow moulded surround. Entrance and ground-floor windows all segmental arched below continuous hoodmould, the windows with vertical glazing bars (lower parts boarded up). Projecting double-sided metal tavern sign, some letters missing. 3-light windows to 1st floor, with decorative brickwork to tympana. Brick modillions to eaves. 2-light attic windows rising through eaves, those at centre paired in dated, pilastered, gable with stepped, logged, eaves; outer windows below finialled hipped roofs. Left return; 2 bays. 2-light windows except for 1-light attic windows which flank corbelled external stack. Corbelled attic pilasters support stepped, logged, eaves. Rear; two lst-floor windows (of 2 and 3 lights); 1 attic window. Wing return has door of left of paired 1-light windows, and 3-light windows over. Interior; not inspected, but reported to retain original stair, fireplaces, and some ceiling cornices.

Listing NGR: SU7190572801