The Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 December 1997. Reading room.
The Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- solitary-hearth-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1997
- Type
- Reading room
- Address
- The Reading Room, Dale, Haverfordwest
- OS grid reference
- SM 811 056
- Coordinates
- 51.70696, -5.16909
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Reading Room is a single-storey building that has been converted from a former house. It features colourwashed render and roughcast with an asbestos sheet roof. The building is double-fronted, with the facade rendered up to the height of the door heads and window sills, while the upper part is roughcast. The central entrance has a cambered-headed six-panel door, flanked by two large windows set high, each containing six panes. The eastern end wall is constructed of render and rubble stone. Inside, there is a single room with a boarded ceiling.
Local climate
The Reading Room sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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