Library and Museum

LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, GRACE HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1061215
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
Library and Museum
Statutory Address:
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, GRACE HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1061215
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
Library and Museum
Statutory Address 1:
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, GRACE HILL

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, GRACE HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:
Folkestone
National Grid Reference:
TR 22896 36199

Details

1. 5281 GRACE HILL (North East Side) FOLKESTONE Library and Museum TR 2236 SE 4/103 II GV 2. Built between 1886 and 1888 by Brightwen Binyon and dated 1887. 2 storeys red brick. 2 parallel ranges. Hipped tiled roof. Centre pediment with moulded brick decorations. Parapet with 4 ball finials. 5 sashes with glazing bars intact with stone pediments above and swag moulding below this. Moulded architraves. Pilasters flank lst floor windows. Aprons underneath windows. Stringcourse. Elaborate pedimented doorcase with brick pilasters.

The Library and Museum form a group with the Former Technical Institute.

Listing NGR: TR2289636199

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Legacy System number:
175327
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.

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