The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

The Reading Room

WRENN ID
empty-vestry-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1988
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 96 NE STOWLANGTOFT THE STREET

2/136 The Reading Room -

GV II

House, built c.1830 as a Reading Room. Flushed flint rubble with quoins and dressings of gault brick. Plaintiled roof to main section, flat roofs on either side behind embattled parapets: a pair of prominent bargeboards with ogee-curved pierced soffits bearing a Tudor flower at each cusp and a turned drop finial at the apex. A chimney of gault brick with 3 octagonal flues. 2 storey gable-front centre section with large single-storey splayed bays on either side. A large 3-light window with an arch within the head of each light: deeply-chamfered reveals and a moulded square hoodmould. In the bays are similar smaller windows, but with 4-centred heads and no hoodmould. Leaded lights. In the right hand bay is an entrance door with 6 equal sunk panels having arcading within the head.

Listing NGR: TL9601268247

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