Reading Room Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Warwick local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. A C17 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Reading Room Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-moat-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warwick
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Reading Room Cottage, Warwick Road, Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe
- OS grid reference
- SP 289 688
- Coordinates
- 52.31663, -1.57741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reading Room Cottage is a circa 17th century timber-framed cottage featuring red brick infill panels. It has a steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends and stands two storeys high, with one brick ridge chimney stack. The cottage has been extended to the east with an additional two storeys and to the west with one storey and an attic, but only the central old portion is of particular interest.
To the left of the central portion, there is a modern stone porch with a tiled roof, which includes two fixed lights with leaded panes. On the right side, there is a rectangular stone-faced bay window with glazing bars. The first floor features two small two-light casements with glazing bars, and there are two gabled dormers at eaves level, each with two-light casements that also have glazing bars. Inside, the timber framing is exposed, and there are chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Reading Room Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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