Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1986. Chapel, reading room.

Reading Room

WRENN ID
cold-postern-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 November 1986
Type
Chapel, reading room
Address
Reading Room, Moulton
OS grid reference
NZ 235 038
Coordinates
54.42925, -1.63839
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Reading Room is a disused Wesleyan chapel built in 1835. It features rubble construction and a Welsh slate roof. The building is a single storey with two windows and has quoins at the corners. A central leaved board door is situated below a deep ashlar lintel that is inscribed with "Wesleyan Chapel AD 1835". The windows, which were shuttered at the time of the last survey, are located below timber lintels. After the Gothic Wesleyan Chapel was constructed across the road in 1863, the building was converted into a day school and later served as a reading room.

Local climate

Reading Room receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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