2, Reading Road is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
2, Reading Road
- WRENN ID
- tired-cobble-raven
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- 2, Reading Road, Basildon, RG8 9NL
- OS grid reference
- SU 609 787
- Coordinates
- 51.50447, -1.12298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage located on the north-east side of Reading Road in Basildon. It is timber-framed with white-painted brick infill, and has a tile-hung gable end on the right. The roof is tiled, with a half-hipped section to the right, and features two gabled dormers, each with a three-light leaded casement window. A chimney stack is positioned off-centre to the right of the roof ridge. The cottage is of a lobby entrance type, originally comprising two framed bays. It has one and a half storeys, with two ground floor windows, each with three lights and leaded casements, flanking a boarded front door. The door is located beneath the chimney stack, which is off-centre to the left. A rustic, gabled porch shelters the entrance.
Local climate
2, Reading Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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