Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates
Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates, Tamworth Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087976
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates
- Statutory Address:
- Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates, Tamworth Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087976
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates, Tamworth Road
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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:
- Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates, Tamworth Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK4901433380
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 July 2022 to correct a typo in the text and reformat to current standards
SK 43 SE
4/39
PARISH OF LONG EATON
TAMWORTH ROAD (West Side)
Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates
GV
II
Public library and adjacent gate. 1906, by architects Gorman and Ross. Art Nouveau style. Built for Long Eaton Urban District Council. Red brick with ashlar dressings and plinth, plus recessed frieze of small blue glazed tiles just below the eaves. Hipped Westmorland slate roof with belled, overhanging eaves. Single storey and three bays. Advanced central bay has deeply coved arch with lintel just above eaves level and a semi-circular headed pediment. This is flanked by slightly lower abutments, each with segment headed panels above the eaves. The bay is approached by two flights of steps with a central platform which has a curved parapet.
The arch is filled by a large grid-like glazed screen with bevelled glass and has inappropriate 1960s replacement doors to centre. Above, the pediment has small dentillations round the edge and a mosaiced tympanum with the figure of Learning set against a golden sunburst. The lintel is inscribed 'Free Library' in Art Nouveau script. To either side the abutments have tall thin windows set in raised brick panels, each flanked by plain stone pilaster strips with scrolled tops. The panels above are filled with gold mosaic, inscribed 'Pax' to south and 'Lux' to north.
To either side of the central bay are the downpipes which have stylish bracketed hopper heads, and beyond to either side, there are canted bay windows with tapering stone work below and Egyptian style stone pilasters to either side. The windows have narrow side lights and a shallow band of grid glazing, like the central screen, to the base of each light. There is a similar, but not identical, window to the north elevation. Large 1960s addition to north west corner of no interest.
Interior has the original glazed grid-like entrance screen and fine Art Nouveau ironwork roof to the rear section of the building. There is also a contemporary stained glass window by Stoddart of Nottingham.
Approximately 7 metres to east of the main entrance is a pair of free-standing iron gates, all that now remains of the original Art Nouveau railings that encircled the library. Both gates have a decorative panel to centre and a band of pierced circles running across about midway up.
Listing NGR: SK4901433380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82224
- 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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