Reading Rooms

READING ROOMS, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280643
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Reading Rooms
Statutory Address:
READING ROOMS, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280643
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Reading Rooms
Statutory Address 1:
READING ROOMS, CHURCH LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
READING ROOMS, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Swarkestone
National Grid Reference:
SK 37178 28548

Details

SK 32 NE PARISH OF SWARKESTONE CHURCH LANE
3/240 (East Side)
Reading Rooms
GV II
Reading rooms, now house. Early C19 with late C19 addition.
Red brick with plain tile roof and brick gable stack to east,
plus stone eaves band. Single storey, two bays with two bay
rear late C19 addition. North elevation has central segment
headed C20 door with C20 segment headed casements to either
side. West gable wall has segment headed plain sash and to
south, rear addition has two similar windows with brick pilaster
strip between. Listed partly for historical interest. Included
for group value only.


Listing NGR: SK3717828548

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
83226
Legacy System:
LBS

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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