The Old Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1985. Former reading room.
The Old Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- graven-loft-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1985
- Type
- Former reading room
- Address
- The Old Reading Room, 7, High Street, Wrentham
- OS grid reference
- TM 498 826
- Coordinates
- 52.38514, 1.67035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Reading Room is a former parish reading room that has been converted into a shop. It was built in 1858 and features red brick construction with rusticated painted stone quoins and window and door surrounds. The roof is slated and adorned with crest tiles. The building is one and a half storeys tall, with a one-storey parapeted wing on the left side.
The main block has two windows, which are heavy ovolo-moulded four-light mullion and transom stone casements that reflect a 16th to 17th-century style. Above these windows, there are cornices created by four oversailing courses of brickwork. To the left, there is an additional window in a similar style, but made of wood, along with a doorway featuring a moulded semi-circular arch and mid-20th-century doors. The gable ends of the parapet are also notable features of the building.
Local climate
The Old Reading Room receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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