The Shire Hall is a former municipal building at Shinfield Park just south of Reading, Berkshire.

[1] Following implementation of the Local Government Act 1972, which increased the responsibilities of the county council, county leaders chose to procure a new purpose-built county headquarters: the site they initially selected was at Abbey Wharf off King's Road,[2][3] but after considerable debate, they opted for a site which would be easier to develop on open land on the southern part of the Shinfield Park estate.

[4][a] The new Shire Hall, which was designed in the Brutalist style and built at a cost of £27.5 million,[9] was completed in 1981.

[10] The design involved seven low-rise octagonal shaped buildings which all featured continuous bands of glazing with concrete panels above and below; an emergency control centre was established in the basement in case of a nuclear attack.

[13] It became the local offices of Foster Wheeler in March 2000[10] and then, in October 2017, of Wood Group.