Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. Former house, reading room.
Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- half-sandstone-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former house, reading room
- Address
- Reading Room, 34, the Street, Didmarton, GL9 1DS
- OS grid reference
- ST 819 874
- Coordinates
- 51.58542, -2.26175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reading Room, formerly a semi-detached house, dates from the early 19th century and is located on the north side of The Street in Didmarton. At the time of the survey in March 1986, it was being used as a village Reading Room. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone and features a stone slate roof with stone end stacks that have offset and moulded cornices, along with a similar rear lateral stack. It is a single range of two storeys, with a single-storey rear lean-to that has a large gable, and a 20th-century extension that is not of special interest.
The facade includes three windows with 12-pane sashes set into cambered head openings, and there are similar longer windows on the ground floor. Additionally, there is one semi-circular headed fixed 12-pane light on the first floor of the left-hand return. The entrance is located at the rear and consists of two doors, each with four recessed panes, leading into the rear and the lean-to section.
Local climate
Reading Room receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
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