No 24 and Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1951. Town house. 1 related planning application.

No 24 and Front Railings

WRENN ID
graven-corner-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1951
Type
Town house
Address
No 24 and Front Railings, Broad Street, RG40 1AB
OS grid reference
SU 810 686
Coordinates
51.41115, -0.83577
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 24 is a small town house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the mid-17th century but was partially rebuilt and re-fronted in the mid-18th century, extended in the 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. The exterior is rendered with incised lines and painted, featuring an old tile gabled roof. The building has a two-cell T-plan with a stair turret at the rear, standing two storeys tall with attics.

Notable architectural features include a moulded and bracketed wooden cornice, two flanking chimneys, and three flat lead roof dormers with two-light casements and glazing bars facing north. The symmetrical front has three bays with flanking angular bays that extend the full height. The central entrance features a six-panel door with a plain rectangular fanlight, set within a doorcase of panelled pilasters and a flat moulded hood supported by cut brackets, with a frieze above. There is also a scraper on the right side of the entrance.

Inside, there is a 17th-century framed newel stair with winders, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail that rises to the attic floor. Iron railings are positioned on either side of the entrance door in front of a small terrace, returning on each side against No. 24.

Local climate

No 24 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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