Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 September 1996. House. 2 related planning applications.
Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- south-roof-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 September 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Reading Room, Kerry, Newtown, SY16 4NP
- OS grid reference
- SO 148 900
- Coordinates
- 52.50181, -3.25583
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building constructed from rock-faced ashlar with freestone dressings and slate roofs. It features a central gable that has three tall lancet windows on the upper floor. On the ground floor, there are two doors with Caernarfon heads and overlights, symmetrically placed on either side of a window. Each door is topped with a gothic gabled canopy supported by terracotta figured corbels. The gable also includes a spherical triangular vent.
Flanking the central section are wings; to the left is the former police house, which has two bays with windows set in ashlar-quoined frames, flat label hoods with brackets, and part-raised dormers on the upper floor. The first bay on the right side is similar, while the second bay features a large loop vent and a JN monogram on a flush shield above. The building has yellow pots on the gable stacks and a rear extension on the southern wing. Behind the gabled front, there is a two-storey brick extension with applied timber framing.
Local climate
Reading Room sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2004
- 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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