Reading Room Cottage and the Old Reading Room
READING ROOM COTTAGE AND THE OLD READING ROOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227804
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room Cottage and the Old Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- READING ROOM COTTAGE AND THE OLD READING ROOM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227804
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room Cottage and the Old Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- READING ROOM COTTAGE AND THE OLD READING ROOM
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- READING ROOM COTTAGE AND THE OLD READING ROOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Powerstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY5167196242
Details
SY 5195 & 5196
11-11-1966
11/227
POWERSTOCK
POWERSTOCK VILLAGE
Reading Room
Cottage and the
Old Reading Room
GV
II
Attached Cottage and former reading room. Mid C18. Rubble stone
walls. Thatch roof, hipped at left hand, with a stone gable-coping
at right hand. One brick stack at left hand hip apex, C20. One
brick stack at ridge centre. 1½ (left) and one storey. 4 windows,
3-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing-bars. Wooden cills.
Former Reading Room has 2 tall 3--light windows with a high wooden
transom rebuilt. Small square window on the gable end. Front doors
(Reading Room Cottage); plank with a wooden lintel over. (Old
Reading Room) plank with one glass light. Interior: (left hard)
C19 cooking-range in situ. Slightly chamfered ceiling-beam.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 185(17).
Listing NGR: SY5167196242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402257
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 185
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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