The Parish Council Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1986. Former school, reading room. 2 related planning applications.
The Parish Council Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- quartered-stone-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rother Valley MP: Jake Richards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1986
- Type
- Former school, reading room
- Address
- The Parish Council Reading Room, Aughton Lane, Aston Cum Aughton
- OS grid reference
- SK 465 855
- Coordinates
- 53.36478, -1.30209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Council Reading Room, formerly known as Aston Old School, is a former school and reading room that is now used as a store. The school was founded in 1738, and the current building dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of cement-rendered sandstone and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is single-storey and features one bay with two windows.
An ashlar sandstone porch with a plinth and a blocked entablature surrounds a 20th-century door in an ashlar surround. The front wall is blind and has deeply-overhanging eaves leading to a wooden pediment, along with a short ashlar stack. At the rear, there is a recessed round-headed panel with a later casement window. The right side of the building has two semi-circular windows with projecting sills and later casements, while the left side is blind.
Local climate
The Parish Council Reading Room receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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