Description

PUDDLETOWN
SY 7594 HIGH STREET (North
Side)

14/73 The Reading Room - -
now Puddletown Youth
Centre

GV II

Village reading room, now used as Youth Centre. Dated 1870. Rock-laced
ashlar walls with ashlar dressings. Slate roof, with heavily cusped
bargeboards, 2 storeys. Elevation to High Street has gabled porch at right
end, extending beyond the main building. Deep bargeboards and ledged door
in shouldered arched opening. In main building, ground and first floors
each have three 2-light stone mullioned windows. These linked vertically by
recessed ashlar panels with shields set in lozenges. West elevation, to
Mill Street, has porch with ornamental bargeboard. Ledged door in 1
shouldered arched opening with inscription "Reading Room" over. Single
light window by door, and circular window over, all in a pointed relieving
arch. At right end, the High Street range projects as gabled wing. In this
a 2-storey canted bay window with hipped roof. Stone mullioned windows,
with horizontal glazing bars, on each floor. These linked vertically by
recessed ashlar panels with shields set in lozenges, and date plaque. Wing
to left of the gable, of 2 storeys, and attic. Ground floor has a 3-light
stone mullioned window under relieving arch. Similar 2-light window on
first floor. Small gabled dormer in attic.

Listing NGR: SY7574894316

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26447519

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]