Former Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. A Late C18 Reading room.
Former Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- lunar-thatch-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Reading room
- Address
- Former Reading Room, Doctors Lane, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 724 489
- Coordinates
- 51.23868, -2.39641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former reading room, now a store, dates from the late 18th century. It is constructed of Doulting and local limestone rubble, topped with a stone tile roof featuring coped verges and a small brick stack. The building has false lead gabled dormers and is designed in a plain classical style. It is two storeys high with six bays. The first floor features 18-pane sash windows set in moulded stone architraves on bull-nosed sills. On the ground floor, there are four two-light beam moulded stone mullioned windows, and a door opening is located between the third and fourth bays, which has a plank door. The right return includes a broad segmental-headed opening with 20th-century plank doors, and there are also sliding plank doors on the right return, also from the 20th century.
Local climate
Former Reading Room receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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