The Reading Room Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. House.
The Reading Room Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-vault-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Reading Room Cottage, High Street, Fulbeck, NG32 3JT
- OS grid reference
- SK 946 502
- Coordinates
- 53.04104, -0.58901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reading Room Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a stone-coped pantiled roof with two brick ridge stacks.
The front of the cottage has an irregular five-bay arrangement over two storeys, with the right-hand two bays being of a different build. An off-centre panelled door is sheltered by a 19th-century open porch supported by rustic timber uprights and topped with a tiled gabled roof. To the left of the door, there is a small square window set in a 19th-century moulded surround, followed by a 20th-century glazing bar casement bow window. On the right side, there is a blocked doorway, a fixed light glazing bar window, a two-light Yorkshire sash window, and another fixed light window.
On the first floor, to the left of the door, there is a single fixed light window and a two-light Yorkshire sash. To the right, there are a three-light Yorkshire sash, a single fixed light, and another three-light Yorkshire sash. All the windows are topped with timber lintels.
Local climate
The Reading Room Cottage 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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