Latitude: 51.4435 / 51°26'36"N
Longitude: -0.9574 / 0°57'26"W
OS Eastings: 472557
OS Northings: 172125
OS Grid: SU725721
Mapcode National: GBR QQK.1Z
Mapcode Global: VHDWT.CZ79
Plus Code: 9C3XC2VV+92
Entry Name: 59, Christchurch Road
Listing Date: 14 December 1978
Last Amended: 16 May 1979
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1321968
English Heritage Legacy ID: 38850
Also known as: 59 The Mount
ID on this website: 101321968
Location: The Mount, Reading, Berkshire, RG2
County: Reading
Electoral Ward/Division: Redlands
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Reading
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Reading Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
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SU 7272
9/439
CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (north side)
No 59
(Formerly listed as No 59 (Uplands), THE MOUNT, previously listed as No 59 (Uplands), The Mount, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (North Side))
GV
II
On corner with Christchurch Road. House for manager at Huntley and Palmer's Factory. Decorative features face approach from Christchurch. 1876. Two storeys gault brick with yellow brick cill and lintel bands and patterning to square corner turret. Moulded brick modillion eaves cornice. Hipped slate roof with fish-scale bands and two brick chimneys with cogged capping. Stop-moulded stone lintels. Plate glass sash windows with bracket cills. Four bays to road, angle turret to left, canted bay with turret roof to right. Centre projecting porch with pointed arch entrance and high parapet with moulded brick rosettes (reminiscent of Joseph Morris's work) and two order archway with label and chamfered side piers with stone floral caps. Decorative panels to door with applied patterned lintel. Contemporary conservatory on ground floor on outer facet of turret, it has a hipped glazed roof, crested ridge and painted panes. Angled return to west. Railings, standards retained.
Interior altered.
Listing NGR: SU7255772125
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