Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Reading room. 1 related planning application.
Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- mired-cloister-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Reading room
- Address
- Reading Room, High Street, Burton Bradstock, DT6 4QA
- OS grid reference
- SY 487 894
- Coordinates
- 50.70279, -2.72733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reading Room is an attached building dated 1879, which was restored in June 1977. It features rubble stone walls with stone dressings and has a slate roof with stone gable coping on the right side. There is a brick stack at the right gable. The building is one full storey high and has two tall, round-headed windows with glazing bars and Y-tracery tops. These windows have moulded wooden frames, dressed stone window heads, and stone cills. The front door is centrally located, made of planks from the 20th century, and has a semicircular fanlight above it with glazing bars.
Local climate
Reading Room receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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