48, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. House.
48, High Street
- WRENN ID
- brooding-sill-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48, High Street, Theale
- OS grid reference
- SU 644 713
- Coordinates
- 51.43774, -1.07429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 48 High Street is a house and shop that dates back to the 17th century, with a refacing from the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is rendered and has an old tile roof, which is higher on the right side. The building consists of two framed bays and stands two storeys tall. Notable architectural details include a dentil brick eaves cornice and a truncated stack on the left side. On the first floor, there are two glazing bar sash windows without horizontal bars, and on the ground floor, there is one glazing bar sash window to the left, also without horizontal bars. To the right, there is a recessed 20th-century shopfront that includes a plate glass window, a glazed door, and a fascia above.
Local climate
48, High Street receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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