Reading Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Reading room. 1 related planning application.

Reading Rooms

WRENN ID
hushed-wall-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1987
Type
Reading room
Address
Reading Rooms, Church Lane, Swarkestone, DE73 1JB
OS grid reference
SK 371 285
Coordinates
52.85317, -1.44934
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Reading Rooms, now a house, were built in the early 19th century with a late 19th-century addition. The building is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile roof with a brick gable stack on the east side, along with a stone eaves band. It is a single-storey structure with two bays, and the rear addition also has two bays from the late 19th century. The north elevation includes a central 20th-century door flanked by 20th-century segment-headed casements. The west gable wall features a segment-headed plain sash window, while the south side of the rear addition has two similar windows separated by a brick pilaster strip. The building is listed partly for its historical interest and included for its group value.

Local climate

Reading Rooms sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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