Old Reading Room Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. House.
Old Reading Room Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-basalt-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Reading Room Cottage, Church Street, Marsh Gibbon
- OS grid reference
- SP 645 230
- Coordinates
- 51.90252, -1.06329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Reading Room Cottage is a house that was formerly a reading room, with a flat to the left. It dates from around 1850 and incorporates an older building. The structure is made of coursed rubble stone with dressed stone surrounds for the doors and windows. It features an old tile roof and flanking brick chimneys. The cottage is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows include stone mullions and barred lights, with a large three-light window on the right and a similar smaller window on the ground floor to the left. The two left-hand bays have two-light windows on the first floor, which are topped with segmental relieving arches and gables. The central entrance is a half-glazed door with a gabled timber and tiled hood supported by moulded stone corbels. There is a lean-to at the rear. The cottage was built as part of a scheme to improve the village by Sir Henry Acland, Master of Ewelme.
Local climate
Old Reading Room Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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