Reading Room Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 2000. House. 1 related planning application.
Reading Room Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-chalk-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2000
- Type
- House
- Address
- Reading Room Cottage, East Street, Southwold, IP18 6EJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 509 761
- Coordinates
- 52.3256, 1.68119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reading Room Cottage is a house built around 1870, constructed of roughcast and painted brick with a slate roof featuring two rendered ridge stacks. The building has a two-storey gabled front facing the street and a three-window right return. The entrance is located in the right return, which also has a plank door to the left of center. To the left of the door, there is one 2-light casement window, and to the right, there are three similar windows. On the first floor, there are three 2-light windows. The gable end has a single window on each floor, with three lights on the ground floor, two lights on the first floor, and one light in the gable apex. All windows are casements featuring lozenge pattern cast-iron glazing bars. The interior does not contain any features of particular interest.
Local climate
Reading Room Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% 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 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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