Allendale Library
ALLENDALE LIBRARY, DAWSON PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042978
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Allendale Library
- Statutory Address:
- ALLENDALE LIBRARY, DAWSON PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042978
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Allendale Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALLENDALE LIBRARY, DAWSON PLACE
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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:
- ALLENDALE LIBRARY, DAWSON PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Allendale
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 83870 55889
Details
In the entry for:
NY 8355 ALLENDALE DAWSON PLACE Allendale Town 24/64 House adjoining north end of Allendale Library GV II
The item and the description shall be amended to read: Meeting Room adjoining north end of Allendale Library
Chapel, later Sunday School, now meeting room. Early C19, probably first quarter. Squared rubble with dressed door surrounds and window heads. Concrete tile roof. Single cell structure but street front gives appearance of two storeys, three bays. Ground floor has a pair of boarded doors flanked by 16 pane sashes, three 16 pane sashes above. Rear wall shows 16 pane sash to light the gallery on the left, and a larger one to right lighting the well of the chapel. Gable wall with projecting stones left for bonding into an built extension. Interior: severely plain room without features. Gallery removed, roof structure hidden by modern suspended celing. History: This was the Primitive Methodist Chapel in use previous to the construction of the larger one adjoining it in 1878. This was an important area for Methodism in the C19 with its many adherents from the local lead mines. The two chapels form a visual and historic group.
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ALLENDALE DAWSON PLACE NY 8355 Allendale Town 24/64 Allendale Library
GV II
Chapel, now Library, dated 1878 over porch. Squared stone, raised ashlar quoins and dressings, moulded corbels to eaves, fishscale slate roof, coped gables with kneelers and finials. 1 storey, 5 bays. Right bay has gabled porch projection with boarded door and fanlight with intersecting glazing bars under chamfered pointed arch, paired pointed windows with inscribed panel 'PRIMITIVE METHODIST' and date, above. CHAPEL To left 4 pointed windows with intersecting glazing bars in chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds. Left return has two triplets of lancets under linked hoodmoulds and small pointed window in gable.
Listing NGR: NY8387055889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240184
- 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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