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The Old Library

The Old Library, Drury Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272893
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: The Old Library
Statutory Address:: The Old Library, Drury Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272893
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: The Old Library
Statutory Address 1:: The Old Library, Drury Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: The Old Library, Drury Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TE

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

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 32878 20782

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 September 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 3220 NE 1/133

DRURY LANE (west side) The Old Library

(Formerly listed as Wakefield Library)

GV II

Library. 1905. In the Neo-Baroque style. Ashlar with slate roofs. Plinth and moulded eaves. East front, single storey, with taller gabled entrance tower. Central doorway with Ionic half-columned surround supporting entablature and decorated hood. Above a large semi-circular fanlight in a concave rusticated surround with shield above. The tower is articulated with tall rusticated Ionic pilasters, on bases, supporting an entablature with pulvinated frieze. Coped gable above has a small two light mullion window with hood mould. The roof of this tower is topped by a wooden cupola with leaded ogee cap and an ornate iron weathervane. The flanking wings each have two large round headed windows which project through the eaves and are topped with round hoods. The concave moulded window surround have decorated keystones, with below raised panels over rusticated bases. Between each pair of windows, a single down pipe with an ornate rainwater head inscribed '1905'. Either side are single circular windows with moulded surrounds and four keystones each. To the right a three bay addition, with a central round headed doorway with moulded surround and keystone, either side are single narrow windows also with moulded surrounds and keystones.

Interior: has central domed entrance hall, with three large rooms off, each with a shallow arched, moulded plaster ceiling.

Built with the assistance of -funds provided by the Carnegie Foundation.

Listing NGR: SE3287820782

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

Legacy System number:: 447273
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.