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
pale-trefoil-cedar
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, Melbury Osmond
OS grid reference
ST 573 077
Coordinates
50.86778, -2.60787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Reading Room is a reading room built in the late 19th century. It features rubble-stone walls and a hipped slate roof, with a 20th-century brick stack on the rear eaves. The building is a single storey and has one fixed window positioned to the right of the centre, which is topped with cambered stone voussoirs. To the left of the centre, there is a plank door framed in wood, also with dressed stone voussoirs above it.

Local climate

The Reading Room receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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