Old Reading Room Cottage

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.