Southern Electricity Board Speen Court is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Electricity board building.
Southern Electricity Board Speen Court
- WRENN ID
- wild-buttress-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Electricity board building
- Address
- Southern Electricity Board Speen Court, Bath Road, Newbury
- OS grid reference
- SU 467 676
- Coordinates
- 51.4061, -1.32871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Speen Court, originally built in the mid-18th century before 1768, is a house of which the two-storey southern part still stands. The building was heightened with early 19th-century additions and now has three storeys. It features a double-fronted design with five windows and a hipped tile roof, complemented by moulded brick stacks. The exterior is made of multi-coloured stock brick, adorned with pilaster strips at the corners. The central three bays slightly project and are topped with a pediment, featuring a stucco tympanum. There is a moulded brick course and an original string course at the second-floor level. On the west elevation, there is a two-storey early 19th-century brick bow window with three lights. The recessed sash windows have gauged flat brick arches and glazing bars. The central entrance is half-glazed and includes a fanlight. A modern addition has been made to the rear of the building.
Local climate
Southern Electricity Board Speen Court receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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