Kington Library, Formerly the Old Radnor Trading Company Headquarters
KINGTON LIBRARY, FORMERLY THE OLD RADNOR TRADING COMPANY HEADQUARTERS, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031885
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Kington Library, Formerly the Old Radnor Trading Company Headquarters
- Statutory Address:
- KINGTON LIBRARY, FORMERLY THE OLD RADNOR TRADING COMPANY HEADQUARTERS, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031885
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Kington Library, Formerly the Old Radnor Trading Company Headquarters
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGTON LIBRARY, FORMERLY THE OLD RADNOR TRADING COMPANY HEADQUARTERS, BRIDGE 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:
- KINGTON LIBRARY, FORMERLY THE OLD RADNOR TRADING COMPANY HEADQUARTERS, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 29797 56672
Details
KINGTON
643-1/0/10003 BRIDGE STREET
17-SEP-02 Kington
(East side)
Kington Library, formerly the Old Radn
or Trading Company Headquarters
GV II
Offices and showroom. 1905, by C.S. Delfosse for the Old Radnor Lime, Roadstone and General Trading Company. Precast concrete; roof not visible. Clasical style. 2 storeys. Corner site, comprising 5 windows onto Duke Street and two onto Bridge Street. Plate-glass sashes. Balustraded parapet, with urns over panels to each bay division. Modillioned cornice. First floor has ashlar finish, and plate-glass sashes in moulded architraves. Moulded string with Greek key frieze over rusticated ground floor, the segmental arches over the windows having voussoirs and keyblocks with relief scrolls. Vermiculated quoins flank curved entrance bay to centre; double-leaf panelled doors set in Gibbs surround with vermiculated blocks and relief-moulded keyblock; blank parapet surmounted by pediment with date in tympanum. Ornamental air bricks. Interior: moulded cornicing and original joinery including panelled doors; walnut desk counter; etched glass with Greek key margins and central company logo.
History: this building occupies a pivotal corner site in the centre of this town. The Old Radnor Lime, Roadstone and General Trading Company, set up in 1875, acquired a strong reputation for the quality of their precast concrete, being awarded the gold medal at the National Trades Industrial Exhibition in 1897. Decorative precast concrete had been used on a limited scale since the mid 19th century, this being a particularly ornate example made to resemble granite.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489779
- 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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