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
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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