The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. Public building. 3 related planning applications.

The Reading Room

WRENN ID: eternal-passage-yew
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Peak District National Park
Country: England
Date first listed: 26 June 1984
Type: Public building
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SK 17 NW PARISH OF PEAK FOREST

3/2 The Reading Room GV II

Public building. Dated 1880. Ashlar gritstone front with rusticated quoins, elsewhere rubble limestone with gritstone dressings. North gable with moulded copings, intermediate stone ridge stack, Welsh slates with crested ridges. Gable to street with tall Venetian window, formerly part of a C17 chapel which stood on the adjacent site of the Church of King Charles the Martyr, and now forming the centrepiece of the elevation. Moulded stringcourse links with keyblock to window arch. Inscription within gable apex reads: '1880 READING ROOM'. Single storey addition of 1983 to south east side.

Listing NGR: SK1132879256

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