Kennet House is a Grade II* listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A Georgian House. 3 related planning applications.
Kennet House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-brick-stoat
- 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
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Kennet House, Broad Street, East Ilsley, RG20 7LW
- OS grid reference
- SU 492 810
- Coordinates
- 51.52599, -1.29086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kennet House is a house dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped tiled roof. The building has a long rectangular plan running east to west, with three gabled wings extending at right angles to the south. It stands two storeys tall with an attic, and includes a plinth, a moulded band at the first floor, and rubbed brick flat arches over the windows. The eaves cornice is bracketed and features a central dormer with a pediment on the north side, flanked by chimneys.
On the north elevation, there are eight glazing bar sash windows with exposed box frames. The six windows on the left are part of the original build, while the two on the right are from a slightly later addition. The elevation also includes three elaborate cast lead rainwater heads and three insurance plaques located between the third and fourth sashes from the left. The entrance features an eight-panel door in the third bay from the left, with raised and fielded bolection moulded panels set in a moulded architrave that supports a frieze and keyblock, flanked by carved scroll brackets. The cornice curves back in the centre to support a shell pediment hood, with a cupid figure sitting on a scroll at the base of the shell. There are three stone steps leading up to the door.
Inside, the house features 18th-century bolection moulded panelling in the hall, landing, and ground and first-floor rooms on the east side, including bolection fire surrounds and matching doors. The open well stair has a moulded handrail that ramps up to square newels and twisted balusters. The rooms to the west are adorned with dado panelling and plaster cornices.
Local climate
Kennet House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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