The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Reading room.
The Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- veiled-pinnacle-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Reading room
- Address
- The Reading Room, the Green, Slingsby
- OS grid reference
- SE 697 748
- Coordinates
- 54.16494, -0.93332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reading Room is a reading room and school dining hall, likely built in the mid-19th century with later alterations. It is constructed from hammer-dressed limestone and features a Welsh slate roof with ashlar dressings. The building has a tall single-storey central range with two bays, flanked by lower two-bay wings. The entrances to the wings consist of board doors with divided overlights, set within plain surrounds that have stepped keystones. Each outer bay of the wings contains a paired sash window in similar surrounds. The main range features taller paired sashes in plain surrounds. The building is adorned with shaped kneelers, copings, and ball finials. The wings have low parapets and concealed flat roofs, with an end stack located on the north wing.
Local climate
The Reading Room receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings