Old Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Former reading room.
Old Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gateway-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former reading room
- Address
- Old Reading Room, Low Road, Belton and Manthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 920 376
- Coordinates
- 52.92794, -0.63234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Reading Room is a former village reading room that has been converted into a house. It dates from the mid-19th century and underwent alterations in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar and brick dressings, topped by a pantile roof that features a plain brick side wall stack. It is designed in the Tudor Revival style and is a single storey with an inserted attic, comprising a three-window range.
The facing gable is adorned with crow-stepped coping and a spike finial, and it includes a large three-light window with chamfered stone mullions and 18-pane sash windows. Above this window, there is a slit breather. The right side of the building has three renewed round-arched glazing bar windows, with the central window flanked by small single-light windows. Above these, there is a 20th-century gabled dormer. To the right, there is a reglazed porch with a coped gable. This building was originally a recreational facility provided for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House.
Local climate
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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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