Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1953. Farmhouse.
Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-sentry-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1953
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse, Byford, HR4 7LD
- OS grid reference
- SO 396 427
- Coordinates
- 52.07971, -2.88153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was restored in the late 20th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill set on a rubble plinth, topped with a machine tile roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a cross-wing extending to the east and another range to the north. A centrally placed chimney stack is located in the northern range. The north-facing front, which faces the street, is one storey high with an attic that is illuminated by a flat-roofed dormer in the hipped gable end. On the ground floor, there are two single-light casements to the left, and the entrance is centrally located, featuring a gabled tiled canopy and a 20th-century ledged and boarded door. The framing consists of three square panels, with the gable of the cross-wing supported by three struts to the collar and a king strut above.
Local climate
Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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