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Latitude: 51.4572 / 51°27'25"N
Longitude: -0.9696 / 0°58'10"W
OS Eastings: 471689
OS Northings: 173637
OS Grid: SU716736
Mapcode National: GBR QMF.92
Mapcode Global: VHDWT.4MSS
Plus Code: 9C3XF24J+V5
Entry Name: Former School of Art
Listing Date: 24 July 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1113600
English Heritage Legacy ID: 39217
ID on this website: 101113600
Location: Reading, Berkshire, RG1
County: Reading
Electoral Ward/Division: Abbey
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Reading
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Reading St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
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SU 7173 NE
1/623
READING
Valpy Street
Former School of Art
(Formerly listed as Municipal Buildings School of Art)
24.7.74.
GV
II
1879, three storeys. Dark blue brick with red brick dressings and terracotta enriched band over first floor. Balustraded parapet. Tiled roof. Stepped sandstone plinth. Four bays. To left a taller end turret with saddleback roof and large second floor two light window with two transoms and enriched pointed tympanum with Arms of Reading. To right a three bay gable with built-up attic, date roundel and flanking chimneys on parapet returns. Windows divided by transoms and subsidiary mullions. Paired in centre bays. Ground and second floor windows segmental headed, pointed on first floor and attic storey. Pointed entrance on ground floor with corbelled mouldings to left. Segmental carriageway arch to right of this. Segmental headed half glazed entrance to right.
Listing NGR: SU7168973637
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