The Reading Room Cottage

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.