Kitchen and Theatre Block Approximately 10 Metres to North of Bucklebury House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Kitchen and theatre block.
Kitchen and Theatre Block Approximately 10 Metres to North of Bucklebury House
- WRENN ID
- plain-basalt-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Kitchen and theatre block
- OS grid reference
- SU 555 704
- Coordinates
- 51.43051, -1.20279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kitchen and Theatre Block, located approximately 10 metres north of Bucklebury House, is a building dating from around 1800. It is constructed of red brick and features an old tile hipped roof, with an end stack to the west and a central timber cupola topped with a bell and an ogee lead cap. The building is designed in an L-shape and consists of one storey.
On the south front, there are three bays, with two large glazing bar sash windows on the left that have exposed wooden boxes, and a four-panelled door on the right with a small glazing bar sash window above it. The theatre block at the rear has a lower half hipped roof and two segmental headed casement windows on the west side.
Inside, the kitchen block includes a contemporary fireplace complete with a spit, fan, pulleys, and grate, which is dated 1809 and marked with the initials W.H.H.H. The sash windows in the building still retain their shutters.
Local climate
Kitchen and Theatre Block Approximately 10 Metres to North of Bucklebury House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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