The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Reading room. 3 related planning applications.

The Reading Room

WRENN ID
keen-steel-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 October 1987
Type
Reading room
Address
The Reading Room, Great Street, Norton Sub Hamdon, TA14 6SG
OS grid reference
ST 469 158
Coordinates
50.93995, -2.75584
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Reading Room is a 19th-century building located on the south side of Great Street in Norton Sub Hamdon. It is constructed from cut and squared Ham stone and features a clay pantiled roof with a stepped coped gable at the west end and an abutment at the east. The building is a single-storey, single-bay structure that includes a horizontal bar three-light casement window. There is a lean-to addition against the west gable that matches the main building, which has a boarded door set in a plain recess and a two-light 20th-century casement window. Additionally, there is a small three-light casement window in the west gable of the main building, positioned above the lean-to roof. The interior has not been seen, but it is noted that the building was formerly used as a blacksmith's premises.

Local climate

The Reading Room receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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