The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Reading room.
The Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- seventh-floor-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Reading room
- Address
- The Reading Room, the Common, Evershot
- OS grid reference
- ST 575 046
- Coordinates
- 50.83954, -2.60427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reading Room is a mid-19th century building located on the north side of The Common in Evershot. It features rubble-stone walls and hipped slate roofs, and is a single storey in height. To the left of the centre, there is a window facing the street, which is a 2-light casement with cambered stone voussoirs. To the right of the centre, there is a painted, 2-leaf plank door. Additionally, on the right-hand side, there is another painted plank door and a 2-light cast-iron casement window.
Local climate
The Reading Room receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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