Ashton Public Library
ASHTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, OLD STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067999
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- ASHTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, OLD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067999
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, OLD 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:
- ASHTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, OLD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 93615 98950
Details
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE OLD STREET SJ 99 NW (north side)
4/28 Ashton Public - Library 15.12.86
- II Library and formerly a school. 1891-3. By John Eaton and Sons. Ashlar with slate roof. Asymmetrical plan with 2 and 3 storeys steps back to accommodate the site and has a 7-bay 1-storey wing to left. Gothic style. A large tower with pyramidal roof dominates the design. It has a 3-arched entrance on columns with naturalistic capitals beneath a pierced parapet and enriched gable. Second floor mullion and transom window beneath an arch with carved tympanum has a pierced balcony. Octagonal stair turret to right has lancet windows and a conical roof and is balanced at the other corners by tourelles. Decorative vanes add to the distinctive skyline. The bays to either side of the tower have various oriel windows, segmental-headed windows and blind cusped openings; the left one has a coped gable with decorative finial. The left wing (originally the school) has weathered gableted buttresses and segmental-headed windows beneath arched recesses. Bay 1 terminates the composition as a gabled projection with an oriel window flanked by cusped niches. The original interior is virtually complete retaining mosaic floors, glazed tiles, plasterwork and glazed doors and screens. The library is housed in a large room with a gallery on 4 sides supported on enriched cast- iron columns and with a decorative balustrade.
Listing NGR: SJ9361598950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212673
- 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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