The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Reading room.

The Reading Room

WRENN ID
sleeping-baluster-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1984
Type
Reading room
Address
The Reading Room, Church Knowle
OS grid reference
SY 939 817
Coordinates
50.63585, -2.08709
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Reading Room is a former village reading room, now used as a store, dated 1881. It features stone walls and a slate roof, and is a single-storey building. There is a porch with a gabled roof and a round-arched opening, which contains a panelled door. Above the door, a stone plaque is inscribed with "Reading Room 1881". On either side of the porch, there are two-light casement windows with round-headed lights set under stone arches.

Local climate

The Reading Room receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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