Temple Reading Room and Art Museum at Rugby School is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. Reading room and art museum. 6 related planning applications.

Temple Reading Room and Art Museum at Rugby School

WRENN ID
waiting-rubblework-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rugby
Constituency
Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Reading room and art museum
Address
Temple Reading Room and Art Museum at Rugby School, Barby Road, CV22 5DW
OS grid reference
SP 504 748
Coordinates
52.36919, -1.2608
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Temple Reading Room and Art Museum at Rugby School was built in 1878 by William Butterfield in the Gothic style. It features red brick with stone dressings and bands, topped with a gabled Welsh slated roof. Accessed by steps on the right, the building has a segmental headed doorway beneath a Gothic relieving arch. It is two storeys high, with three-light windows on the ground floor and a two-light window on the first floor, all positioned between buttresses. The structure includes three large gabled dormers, each with three-light windows, broad transoms, pointed arches, and mullions. There are brick and stone chimneys, and a projecting gable on the left side. Some medieval stained glass is present in the building.

Local climate

Temple Reading Room and Art Museum at Rugby School receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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