Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Reading room.

Reading Room

WRENN ID
pitched-spire-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1985
Type
Reading room
Address
Reading Room, East Witton, North Yorkshire, DL8 4SH
OS grid reference
SE 144 859
Coordinates
54.26921, -1.78038
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Reading Room, now used for billiards, is an early 19th-century building located in East Witton. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a stone slate roof with a skylight and ventilator. The building has two storeys and one first-floor window. The openings are detailed with ashlar sills and lintels. To the right, there is a six-panel door, and on the ground floor, there are two 16-pane sash windows.

Local climate

Reading Room receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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