The Reading Room
THE READING ROOM, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284282
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- THE READING ROOM, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284282
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE READING ROOM, THE STREET
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:
- THE READING ROOM, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stowlangtoft
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 96012 68247
Details
TL 96 NE STOWLANGTOFT THE STREET
2/136 The Reading Room -
GV II
House, built c.1830 as a Reading Room. Flushed flint rubble with quoins and dressings of gault brick. Plaintiled roof to main section, flat roofs on either side behind embattled parapets: a pair of prominent bargeboards with ogee-curved pierced soffits bearing a Tudor flower at each cusp and a turned drop finial at the apex. A chimney of gault brick with 3 octagonal flues. 2 storey gable-front centre section with large single-storey splayed bays on either side. A large 3-light window with an arch within the head of each light: deeply-chamfered reveals and a moulded square hoodmould. In the bays are similar smaller windows, but with 4-centred heads and no hoodmould. Leaded lights. In the right hand bay is an entrance door with 6 equal sunk panels having arcading within the head.
Listing NGR: TL9601268247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281239
- 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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