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
The Reading Room is a house built around 1830, originally serving as a Reading Room. It features flushed flint rubble with quoins and dressings made of gault brick. The main section has a plaintiled roof, while flat roofs on either side are set behind embattled parapets. Notable architectural details include a pair of prominent bargeboards with ogee-curved pierced soffits, each adorned with a Tudor flower at the cusp and a turned drop finial at the apex. A gault brick chimney with three octagonal flues is present. The building has a two-storey gable-front center section flanked by large single-storey splayed bays on either side. Each bay contains a large three-light window with arches above each light, featuring deeply-chamfered reveals and a moulded square hoodmould. The smaller windows in the bays have similar designs but feature 4-centred heads without hoodmoulds and are fitted with leaded lights. The right-hand bay includes an entrance door with six equal sunk panels, which has arcading within the head.
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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
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