Harley House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Harley House
- WRENN ID
- half-frieze-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Harley House, Park Wall Lane, Basildon, RG8 9PA
- OS grid reference
- SU 600 780
- Coordinates
- 51.49788, -1.13627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harley House is a house built between 1912 and 1913 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is constructed of grey brick with red dressings and chaînage. The building features a coved plaster cornice beneath an old tile hipped roof, with two ridge stacks positioned off-centre to the left and right, an end stack to the right, and another stack to the left at the rear. There is a central hipped dormer with a two-light casement, along with two additional hipped dormers on the south-west side. The house has two storeys and an attic, comprising seven bays with glazing bar sashes that have exposed wooden boxes and segmental heads, with the ground floor windows being taller. The central entrance features a six-panelled door, where the bottom two panels are flush and the rest are fielded, along with panelled reveals and a rectangular overlight with diamond glazing bars. The doorcase is supported by three-quarter Tuscan columns, which hold up an entablature with a triple keystone and a segmental pediment that breaks forward over the columns.
Local climate
Harley House 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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