Froomes House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Froomes House
- WRENN ID
- grey-granite-root
- 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
- Address
- Froomes House, Basildon, RG8 8LS
- OS grid reference
- SU 598 761
- Coordinates
- 51.4811, -1.13977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Froomes House is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a refacing from the mid 19th century and a gabled wing that is off-centre to the right. There is also a 20th-century addition to the right. The house is timber framed with angle bracing and has white painted brick nogging at the rear, along with a white painted brick addition and white painted brick facing at the front. It features a dentil brick eaves cornice beneath an old tile roof with end stacks. The house has three framed bays to the left and is two storeys high. On the first floor, there are three 2-light 20th-century casements, while the ground floor has two 19th-century sashes with segmental heads to the left and a large 3-light late 20th-century casement to the right. There is a segmental-headed 4-panelled door off-centre to the left, situated between the second and third windows from the left, which is sheltered by a gabled brick and timber porch. The wing to the right has a first-floor sash and a ground-floor 20th-century door.
Local climate
Froomes 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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