Barford House and Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1969. House, offices. 3 related planning applications.

Barford House and Front Railings

WRENN ID
kindled-screen-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1969
Type
House, offices
Address
Barford House and Front Railings, 14, Shute End
OS grid reference
SU 809 687
Coordinates
51.4118, -0.83768
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barford House, now used as offices, was built around 1850 and extended in the 19th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. The building features painted render and a tiled, gabled roof. It has a rectangular plan with late 19th-century extensions at the rear and stands two storeys high with attics. There are two chimneys on the ridge, one on the left and one on the right, both with offset heads and clay pots. The front has four bays and two gables, with sash windows framed by architraves. On the right side, there is a recessed part that is two storeys high and one bay wide, featuring a small gabled roof and a small sash window on the first floor. The entrance consists of a repositioned four-panelled door located in a later flat-roofed closed porch, which has a wreathed and radiating fanlight above it. This entrance is approached by four steps from the 20th century. The property is also adorned with 19th-century iron railings that span the entire width of the front in two bays, set on a low plinth and topped with fleur-de-lys heads.

Local climate

Barford 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
  • 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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