Old Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1961. House.
Old Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- endless-pinnacle-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Reading Room, Church Street, Stoke-By-Nayland
- OS grid reference
- TL 987 362
- Coordinates
- 51.98911, 0.89362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Reading Room is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 17th to 18th century, located on Church Street in Stoke-by-Nayland. It has two storeys and features a five-window range with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars. The ground floor showcases two 19th-century splayed bays and one 18th-century shop oriel with a moulded cornice. The doorways are adorned with moulded wood architraves and shallow cornices. The roofs are tiled, and there is a large central rectangular chimney stack.
Local climate
Old Reading Room sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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