Reading Room
READING ROOM, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315797
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- READING ROOM, VILLAGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315797
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- READING ROOM, VILLAGE 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:
- READING ROOM, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 72142 68014
Details
The List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 February 2017.
SE 76 NW WELBURN VILLAGE STREET
(north side)
5/135 Reading Room
GV II
Former reading room. Late C18 with C20 alteration. Chiselled
sandstone to front with rubble sandstone sides on squared sandstone plinth;
herringbone-tooled raised quoins and finely tooled dressings; slate roof
with timber bellcote and rebuilt brick stacks. Single-storey, 3-bay front
with lower single bay outbuilding to left. Board door to left, in
outbuilding, beneath tripartite lintel. Original doorway to centre in
raised triple-keyed surround now blocked by a 16-pane sash with stone sill.
Similar windows to left and right. Over the centre opening is a First World
War memorial clock, to which the keystone beneath has been inscribed with
the dedication. Raised eaves band. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End
right and centre stacks. Bellcote containing the clock bell to right of
centre stack.
Listing NGR: SE7214268014
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/30878
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249999
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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