Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 July 1979. Reading room.

Reading Room

WRENN ID
deep-mullion-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 July 1979
Type
Reading room
Address
Reading Room, Great Barrington Village
OS grid reference
SP 206 135
Coordinates
51.82046, -1.70177
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Reading Room is a building from the mid-19th century located in Great Barrington. It is constructed from coursed squared and dressed limestone, featuring finely dressed quoins and a stone slate roof with an ashlar stack. The building has a rectangular plan and includes a lean-to extension at the rear. It is a single-storey structure with three pairs of lancet windows that have Gothick glazing, carved spandrels, and stopped hoods. Access is provided through a plank door located at the left gable end of the lean-to. Inside, there is a 19th-century reeded surround to the fireplace.

Local climate

Reading Room receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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