Corace House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Corace House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-quartz-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Corace House, Broad Street, East Ilsley, RG20 7LW
- OS grid reference
- SU 492 810
- Coordinates
- 51.5262, -1.29146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corace House is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a brick front with grey headers and red stretchers, and a timber frame with rendered infill to the west, along with brick extensions and tiled roofs. The main block has a lobby entry plan running from west to east, with two extensions at right angles to the north that are parallel to each other; the eastern extension is from the 20th century, while the western extension is from the 19th century and has been altered in the 20th century. The house is two storeys high and has a brick dentil course at the eaves of the south elevation, a large central ridge chimney on the main block, and a chimney with a bread oven on the north side of the 19th-century block.
On the south elevation, there is an early 19th-century front with paired cross-glazed sash windows flanking a central door. The ground floor features sashes with cambered heads, and the central door is a two-panel bolection moulded door set in a doorcase with pilasters, a fluted frieze, a dentilled cornice, and a pediment. The west elevation shows a 19th-century brick extension with a 20th-century first floor to the left, which includes two 19th-century sash windows, while the right side reveals a 17th-century gable with the full timber frame exposed and a three-light casement window in the gable.
Local climate
Corace 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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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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