Markham House and Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1951. House.
Markham House and Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- stony-entrance-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Markham House and Front Railings, 20, Broad Street
- OS grid reference
- SU 810 686
- Coordinates
- 51.41096, -0.83544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Markham House, located at No. 20 on Broad Street in Wokingham, is a large house dating from around 1840 that has been converted into offices. The building is constructed of brick and features a low-pitched gabled slate roof. It stands two storeys tall, with attics and a basement, and has large chimneys that are flush with the gable walls. The front of the house is symmetrical with three bays, showcasing sash windows, including tripartite windows on the ground floor. The central entrance is a four-panel door with a plain rectangular fanlight and sidelights, all framed by a wide painted Doric surround that includes pilasters, a frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course. This entrance is accessed by ten moulded stone steps and has two iron scrapers. Additionally, there are cast iron railings with an acanthus pattern across the front, set on a low wall between short flanking brick walls and piers topped with stone capping, which return on either side of the steps leading to the entrance door.
Local climate
Markham House and Front Railings 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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