The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Reading room.

The Reading Room

WRENN ID: moated-slate-sparrow
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Somerset
Country: England
Date first listed: 18 March 1986
Type: Reading room
Source: Historic England listing

Description

NORTH CADBURY CP WOOLSTON ROAD (North side) ST6327 8/162 The Reading Room

GV II

Reading room. C19, probably using earlier fabric. Local lias stone roughly cut and squared; double Roman clay tile roof with coped west gable, abutment to east; brick chimney stack. Single-storey, 3-bay roadside elevation. Bays 1 and 2 have large 12-pane sash windows, sash boxes set flush; bay 3 has a boarded door in heavy frame, under timber lintol, up 2 steps. C20 steel casement, leaded, in west gable, in the narrowing of an earlier window part blocked by erection of C20 building to west. In rear elevation a diamond-glazed window and also a blocked timber- framed window of earlier date. Interior not seen. Attached on east gable to No 21 (qv) with which it has historical links and also important group value.

Listing NGR: ST6355127238

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