Reading Room Cottage And The Old Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage, reading room. 1 related planning application.

Reading Room Cottage And The Old Reading Room

WRENN ID
lesser-chancel-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1966
Type
Cottage, reading room
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SY 5195 & 5196 11-11-1966 11/227

POWERSTOCK POWERSTOCK VILLAGE

Reading Room Cottage and the Old Reading Room

GV II

Attached Cottage and former reading room. Mid C18. Rubble stone walls. Thatch roof, hipped at left hand, with a stone gable-coping at right hand. One brick stack at left hand hip apex, C20. One brick stack at ridge centre. 1½ (left) and one storey. 4 windows, 3-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing-bars. Wooden cills. Former Reading Room has 2 tall 3--light windows with a high wooden transom rebuilt. Small square window on the gable end. Front doors (Reading Room Cottage); plank with a wooden lintel over. (Old Reading Room) plank with one glass light. Interior: (left hard) C19 cooking-range in situ. Slightly chamfered ceiling-beam. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 185(17).

Listing NGR: SY5167196242

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