Reading Room Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Reading Room Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Reading Room Cottage, the Street, Castle Combe, SN14 7HT
- OS grid reference
- ST 841 771
- Coordinates
- 51.49313, -2.22907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reading Room Cottage is a pair of cottages, now functioning as a house, with origins dating back to the 17th century. The building is constructed of rubble stone and features stone tiled roofs, rising to one-and-a-half and two storeys.
The left side cottage is two storeys high and has a single window range with a coped north gable. It includes one two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window on the first floor, a 20th-century single light ovolo-moulded window on the ground floor, and a plain doorcase with a 19th-century studded door. There is a low buttress on the left side.
The right side cottage is one storey with an attic and has a stack at the south end. It features a dormer gable with a three-light ovolo-moulded renewed oak mullion window above, along with one original and one 20th-century ovolo-moulded two-light stone-mullion window, both with hoodmoulds. The north end wall has a two-light chamfered flush stone-mullion window on the ground floor and a two-light bead-moulded upper window, also with a hoodmould. The windows throughout the building are fitted with leaded lights.
Local climate
Reading Room Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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