THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 88-90, HIGH STREET

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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:: THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 88-90, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

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

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 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

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Legacy System number:: 310362
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.