Colburn House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1951. Town house. 3 related planning applications.
Colburn House
- WRENN ID
- carved-grate-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1951
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Colburn House, 41, Broad Street, RG40 1AU
- OS grid reference
- SU 810 687
- Coordinates
- 51.41176, -0.83613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century town house, now offices and part house. It was altered and extended in the mid-19th century and mid-20th century. The building is constructed of brick with a slate gabled roof and follows an L-shaped plan, with a 19th-century service wing at the rear, now forming numbers 1 and 3 Rectory Road, which are separately listed. The house has two storeys, a cellar, and attics.
The front facade features three dormers with flat lead heads and two-light casement windows. There are sash windows with altered glazing. The front has a projecting plinth, a painted string at the level of the first-floor window sills, a narrow moulded cornice with modillions, a 19th-century parapet, and stone coping. A six-panelled central door is accessed by six stone steps and is flanked by sidelights, one with a semi-circular head. A 19th-century one-bay extension exists on the left, featuring a parapet, coping, large French casement windows on the first floor, an iron balcony, and a pent roof.
The return front facing Rectory Road includes a gabled end with two flanking chimneys, a cross window on the ground floor, and a plain ledged door to the left. To the left of the door is a former service wing featuring a Gothic window on the first floor and two sash windows with glazing bars to the left. The ground floor of the service wing has four similar sash windows and a plain ledged door to the left, and continues as numbers 1 and 3 Rectory Road.
Local climate
Colburn 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 78% 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 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- 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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