Prospect Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Terrace. 17 related planning applications.

Prospect Terrace

WRENN ID
eternal-moat-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Terrace
Address
Prospect Terrace, 237-247, Oxford Road, RG1 7PX
OS grid reference
SU 704 734
Coordinates
51.45539, -0.9878
Source
Historic England listing

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

Description

Prospect Terrace, located on Oxford Road, is a group of buildings from the early to mid-19th century that have been altered. The terrace consists of three storeys and a basement, constructed of red brick with a hipped slate roof featuring ridge chimneys. The buildings at Nos 141-147 have flat eaves. Each house has two ranges of glazing bar sash windows, some of which have been altered. Notably, No 141 features an early 20th-century square bay window extending to the basement and first two floors.

Nos 237-243 maintain elegant segmental arched doorways adorned with radiating and wreathed fanlights, supported by Greek key fret lintels on fluted Doric columns, and each has a six-panel door. No 145 has a modern doorway, while No 147 includes a six-panel door within a single-storey extension to the right, which has a square marginally glazed fanlight flanked by brackets on narrow panelled pilasters. The door for Lorne Street (No 2) has lost its gate and retains only its original footscrapers.

Local climate

Prospect Terrace 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 17 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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