The Old Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- burning-chalk-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Reading Room, High Street, Fulbeck, NG32 3JT
- OS grid reference
- SK 946 502
- Coordinates
- 53.04095, -0.58907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Reading Room is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a pantiled roof that has a stone-coped gable topped with a low roll finial. The building has a three-bay single-storey front with attics. The central 19th-century rectangular ashlar bay window sits on a plinth and has a three-light mullioned sash window above it, which is set beneath a dentillated cornice and a flat roof. The roof includes two dormers, one with two lights and another with three lights, both from the 20th century, featuring boarded cheeks and flat roofs. To the left of the building is a 20th-century staircase with an openwork wrought iron balustrade.
Local climate
The Old Reading Room sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- 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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