The Public Library
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 88-90, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034221
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 88-90, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034221
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 88-90, HIGH 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:
- THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 88-90, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marlborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 18601 68882
Details
SU 1868
2/195
High Street (North Side)
Numbers 88 to 90 (consec)
(The Public Library)
GV
II
Mid Cl9. Stock brick. Pitched concrete tile roofs. 1 storey and attics. 2-gabled
front, with smaller gable between, and set slightly back. 2 principal gables
coped, with ornamental finials, and taken on kneelers. 1 mullioned
window each, with square heads and hood moulds. Attics have 1 coulus each, whose
outlines are formed by the intersection of a trilobe with a triangle, themselves
set within "spherical triangles" under hoodmoulds with label stops carved as
medieval heads. Central bay has doorway with 4-centred arch and modern door,
2 stringcourses, single light with hoodmould, blind oculus consisting of quadrilobe
set within square, and shaped gable above.
Nos 65 to 85 (consec), The Sun Public House and Nos 88 to 90 (consec) form a
group, together with the Church of St Peter and St Paul, and with Nos 42 to 64
(consec) on the South Side.
Listing NGR: SU1859368866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310362
- 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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