Saxone is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.

Saxone

WRENN ID
former-outpost-oak
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
Saxone, 107, Broad Street, RG1 2AX
OS grid reference
SU 714 734
Coordinates
51.4554, -0.97244
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Saxone is a building located on Broad Street, dating from around 1860. It features a tall, four-storey Tudor-Gothic frontage constructed of painted brick with stone dressings. The front is characterized by two shaped gables, which have corbelled finials and moulded caps, setting a tone for later developments in Broad Street. The gables contain cusped arches that frame recessed stone mullion windows on the second and third floors, which are fitted with plate glass sashes in two and three lights, and have labels above them. A squarish balustrade is present on the second floor. On the first floor, there are two pairs of cross windows, also with labels above, each pair flanking a cusped-headed niche with a stand. The building has cusped-headed gutter mouths, with the left rainwater head retaining a scalloped capital shape. The roof is covered with slate and features a crested ridge. There is a modern shop front at the ground level.

Local climate

Saxone 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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