Reading Room The Cottage

The Reading Room and The Cottage is an early 18th century house that was converted into a reading room in 1887. It is built of squared stone and has a pantile roof, except for the rear outshut which is covered with Welsh slates. The building is a single storey with five slightly irregular bays, as the upper floor was removed in 1887. The centre features a flush-panelled door beneath a gabled hood supported by moulded brackets. There are 12-pane sash windows, with a former first-floor band visible above. The gables are coped and rest on moulded kneelers, and there are corniced end stacks that are likely re-set.

Inside, the reading room in the west part retains a fine early 18th century panelled room, complete with a dado rail, cornice, and panelled and fluted pilasters flanking the fireplace, which has a corniced overmantel. There is a two-panel door set in a bolection-moulded surround with a pulvinated frieze. To the right of the fireplace is a shell-headed cupboard with shaped shelves. A panelled round arch, featuring imposts and a fluted key block, connects the entrance passage to the outshut, which was the former stair position. The eastern part of the building, located to the right of the entrance passage, is currently used as bedrooms for The Cottage, the adjacent single-storeyed dwelling that is otherwise not of special interest.