3-18, Reading Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. A C19 Terrace of cottages. 7 related planning applications.
3-18, Reading Street
- WRENN ID
- fossil-stronghold-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- 3-18, Reading Street, South Swindon, SN1 5BS
- OS grid reference
- SU 146 848
- Coordinates
- 51.56211, -1.78964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of sixteen cottages was built between 1846 and 1847 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a village intended to house railway workers. The village was designed by I.K. Brunel and constructed south of the railway line, with building work beginning in 1842. This terrace forms part of the block built between 1845 and 1847, on the east side of Emlyn Square. The buildings are constructed from coursed squared rubble with ashlar door and window surrounds, and have coursed rubble rear walls. They feature slate roofs and brick stacks on party walls. Each cottage is two storeys high, with one bay and a through side passage, containing two rooms deep. A 20th-century brick lean-to has been added to the rear. The cottages sit on a low, chamfered plinth and feature 20th-century fifteen-pane glazed doors with chamfered surrounds and run-out stops. They also have four-pane sashes in chamfered surrounds. The cottages were extensively renovated around 1974.
Local climate
3-18, Reading Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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