Army House, Bradfield College is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Dormitories, classrooms. 3 related planning applications.
Army House, Bradfield College
- WRENN ID
- south-porch-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Dormitories, classrooms
- Address
- Army House, Bradfield College, Reading, RG7 6AX
- OS grid reference
- SU 604 726
- Coordinates
- 51.4493, -1.13126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Army House, part of Bradfield College, is a building dating to around 1865, likely designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It serves as dormitories and classrooms.
The south-west front is constructed of flint with brick dressings, incorporating lacing courses. The window dressings are of Bath stone. The first floor window relieving arches are alternately tiled and brick, featuring patterned brickwork within their tympana. The attic is tile hung in a fish-scale diaper pattern. The roof is tiled; six gabled semi-dormers are tile hung and contain twin sash windows. Large end stacks are present to the right, with one to the rear left, and another to the front, corbelled from the attic off-centre to the right; all are diapered and multi-shafted with oversailing tops. The building is one and a half storeys high with six first floor two-light mullioned windows with sashes. On the ground floor are four two-light mullioned windows with sashes, and a three-light mullioned window with sashes situated between the first and second two-light windows from the left. A boarded door is located off-centre to the left, and a gabled timber-framed porch with arch braced entrance is positioned nearby.
A right-hand block, set back, is one and a half storeys high, with a gabled semi-dormer and a two-light ground floor window. A wing projects to the right, displaying a jettied attic, a sash window in the tile-hung gable end, and a right-hand end stack with three diagonally set shafts and oversailing tops. This wing incorporates two first floor Caernarvon arched windows, and a boarded door with a 20th-century gabled rustic porch.
A tower projects from the left-hand return front and is built of flint with brick dressings. It features a square ground floor with broaches leading to a semi-circular first floor, and a square tile-hung attic supported by timber braces, with a gable and two sashes to the north. Small rectangular windows are present on each floor to the north.
The north-east front displays a large asymmetrical composition with irregular fenestration, consisting of a jettied tile-hung attic gable to the left, two tile-hung gabled semi-dormers, a large stack to the right, and a semi-circular stair tower positioned off-centre to the right, featuring a square base and a conical tile roof. A large first-floor three-light mullioned window is located to the left, with a tiled relieving arch and patterned brickwork in the tympanum.
Local climate
Army House, Bradfield College receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 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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