Public Library Young Gallery
PUBLIC LIBRARY, CHIPPER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023580
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library Young Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, CHIPPER LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03384/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023580
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library Young Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, CHIPPER LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- YOUNG GALLERY, CHIPPER 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.
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:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, CHIPPER LANE
- Statutory Address:
- YOUNG GALLERY, CHIPPER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Salisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14431 30162
Details
CHIPPER LANE 1. 1594 (North Side) Public Library & Young Gallery SU 1430 SW 1/434 II 2. Library 1904 by A C Bothams, the adjoining Young Gallery by Mr Blount 1910-13. The Library is free Cotswold Tudor-Jacobean. 3 storeys, ashlar. Centre recessed between 2 slightly projecting gabled bays, that to right wider. Moulded copings to gables. Crenellated parapet between with 4 centred cusped arched openings. Quatrefoil panelling in stone band below. Strings across 2nd floor windows and stepped up over ground floor ones. Large stone mullioned, transomed window on ground floor with 4 centred arches to lights. Art Nouveau leaded panes. Entrance has 4 centred arch with carved spandrels, 3 lights over with drip mould stepped up over all. The gallery to left has string carried over from Library, moulded coping to parapet. Ashlar front slightly lower than Library, flanked by slender half octagon turrets rising above parapet, with minature crenella- tion to caps. Below parapet (approximately at 2nd floor level) a large stone panel, contained by the turrets. Good freely carved relief of roses. In middle of wall a full width 6 light stone mullioned and transomed window, the upper lights blind. Panel below window, resting on plinth, with dedicatory inscription. Above the window runs a shallow coved cornice decorated with rosettes and fleur de lys, miniature crenellation. Picturesque group.
Listing NGR: SU1443130162
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318952
- 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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