Reading Room And Cottage Adjoining To Right is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Reading room, cottage.
Reading Room And Cottage Adjoining To Right
- WRENN ID
- burning-foundation-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Reading room, cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reading Room and the adjoining cottage were built in 1850, although the cottage includes one bay from a bastle-type building dating back to around 1600. The Reading Room and the left part of the cottage are constructed from coursed squared stone with tooled dressings, while the right bay is made of rubble with a larger boulder plinth. The roof is stone-flagged.
The Reading Room is a single tall storey with two bays. It features a central ledged and boarded door, flanked by 16-pane sash windows. The left bay of the cottage has a similar door and 20th-century windows in the original openings, all with tooled lintels and sills. The right bay has modern windows in new openings. The cottage has end chimneys, with the left chimney likely also serving the Reading Room. On the left side of the Reading Room, there is a segment-arched wagon entrance with alternating-block jambs, which has been partly filled and has 20th-century boarded doors inserted.
Historically, this building was constructed by Thomas Sopwith, who was the agent for The Blackett lead mines, for the use of the miners.
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