Church View Old Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. House.
Church View Old Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- crooked-chimney-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church View Old Reading Room, Main Street, Todenham
- OS grid reference
- SP 242 362
- Coordinates
- 52.0244, -1.64739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church View Old Reading Room is a semi-detached house and flat located on Todenham Main Street. It consists of two phases of construction from the 18th century, with the initials and date WFA/1713 inscribed on a datestone towards the right at first floor level. There is a 19th-century extension and restoration. The building is made of coursed squared and dressed limestone, featuring a concrete tile roof, an ashlar stack, a brick stack on an ashlar stump, and an artificial stone stack.
The rectangular plan was extended to the left in the 18th century and again in the 19th century. The structure has two storeys and an attic, which is lit by two 2-light 20th-century metal casements. The façade has four windows across six bays, including three stone mullioned cross windows and one stone mullioned casement, all of which have stopped hoods and leaded lights. There are also two tall 2-light 20th-century casements with glazing bars, and a 12-pane sash window located far left above 20th-century double doors. The doors have a concrete lintel and brick infill to the left.
To the right, there is a plank door set in a plain flat-chamfered surround, and a central 2-panelled door in a flat chamfered surround with a flat hood supported on moulded brackets. The building features flat gable end coping, a gable end stack, and an axial stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church View Old Reading Room receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
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