Reading Room Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
Reading Room Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-wattle-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Reading Room Cottage, Main Street, Langton, YO17 9QP
- OS grid reference
- SE 798 671
- Coordinates
- 54.09399, -0.78023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reading Room Cottage is a schoolroom, later converted into a house, dating from 1841. It is constructed of limestone rubble with a Welsh slate roof. The building is single-storied and features a central entrance with a board door flanked by pointed casement windows. A datestone from 1841 is above the door, partially obscured by creeper. The roof has gable coping and shaped kneelers, with a stack at the right end.
Local climate
Reading Room Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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