Fielden Library

Fielden Library, 30, Dock Street, Fleetwood, FY7 6AG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072428
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:: Fielden Library
Statutory Address:: Fielden Library, 30, Dock Street, Fleetwood, FY7 6AG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072428
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:: Fielden Library
Statutory Address 1:: Fielden Library, 30, Dock Street, Fleetwood, FY7 6AG

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: Fielden Library, 30, Dock Street, Fleetwood, FY7 6AG

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Wyre (District Authority)
Parish:: Fleetwood
National Grid Reference:: SD 34015 47934

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/05/2019

SD 3447 3/12

DOCK STREET No 30, Fielden Library

(Formerly listed as Fleetwood Museum and Public Library, DOCK STREET) GV II 1863. Red brick. Ashlar dressings. Pitched modern tile roof. Two storeys. Ashlar parapet. Vermiculated ashlar plinth. Ashlar first floor balcony on stone brackets with cast iron balustrade. Ground floor has two groups of three lancets with sashes. First floor has five paired round-headed lancets with sashes, separated by colonnettes with elaborate foliate capitals, under two-centred super-arches with oculi in tympana and hoodmoulds over. Panelled doors under trefoiled archway with oculus in tympanum surrounded by elaborate carved foliage and the legend "Public Hall Library and Reading Room". Continuous ground floor hoodmould breaking up over mandorla-shaped panels either side of door, with "AD" monogram and "1863" respectively.

Listing NGR: SD3401547934

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Legacy System number:: 184740
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.