20, Reading Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. House.
20, Reading Street
- WRENN ID
- stony-gargoyle-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20, Reading Street, South Swindon, SN1 5BS
- OS grid reference
- SU 147 848
- Coordinates
- 51.56214, -1.78888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Reading Street is a house in a terrace built in 1862 for the Great Western Railway Company. It is constructed of ashlar limestone set in black mortar and features a slate roof with brick gable stacks. The house is two stories high and consists of one bay with a through side passage and is two rooms deep. There is a 20th-century rear addition. The property has chamfered door and window surrounds, a fifteen-pane door, four-pane sash windows, and a two-pane sash window above the door.
This house is part of a village designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to accommodate workers for the new Great Western Railway works. The village layout, which began construction in 1842, includes a grid of twelve terraces in six blocks on either side of the High Street, with most buildings completed by 1855. The village is recognized as one of Britain’s best-preserved and architecturally ambitious railway settlements.
Local climate
20, 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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