The Old Reading Room

The Old Reading Room is a house dating from the 17th century, which has undergone alterations. It features a timber frame with brick infill, with the ground floor partly rebuilt in brick during the 18th and 20th centuries. The building has an old tile roof and a 17th to 18th century brick chimney located between the left bays, along with flanking brick chimneys from the 19th century. The structure is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has three-light casements, mostly made of wood and barred, with leaded lights on the first floor of the left bay and the ground floor centre. There are small single wooden casements on the ground floor left and on the first floor between the left bays, the latter positioned above a flush panelled door. A boarded door is located between the right bays. The rear of the building has been significantly altered and extended. Inside, some diagonal braces are visible, along with stop-chamfered spine beams on the first floor.