The Crown Inn is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. House, inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Crown Inn
- WRENN ID
- brooding-steel-evening
- 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, inn
- Address
- The Crown Inn, 4, Church Street, Theale, RG7 5BT
- OS grid reference
- SU 642 712
- Coordinates
- 51.43702, -1.07731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Inn is a 17th-century house and inn, with an addition from the mid-18th century. The rear section is timber-framed and rendered, the front is rendered brick, and the roof is covered in old tiles, with a "nipped" profile to the left and a half-hipped profile to the right. A gabled wing extends from the rear. The building is two storeys high, with a plinth, rusticated quoins, a plat band, a dentil brick eaves cornice, and three ridge stacks located centrally and off-centre to the left and right. It has glazing bar sash windows with exposed wooden boxes. The first floor has five windows, with four alternating blind windows. The ground floor has five windows – three on the right have boarded shutters, and a blind window is between the first and second from the left. A 20th-century boarded door is between the second and third windows from the right, and a 20th-century half-glazed door is located to the far right.
Local climate
The Crown Inn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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