BRITISH LEGION CLUB AND BRANCH LIBRARY

BRITISH LEGION CLUB AND BRANCH LIBRARY, BELL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088606
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: BRITISH LEGION CLUB AND BRANCH LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: BRITISH LEGION CLUB AND BRANCH LIBRARY, BELL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088606
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: BRITISH LEGION CLUB AND BRANCH LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: BRITISH LEGION CLUB AND BRANCH LIBRARY, BELL LANE

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BRITISH LEGION CLUB AND BRANCH LIBRARY, BELL LANE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Blockley
National Grid Reference:: SP 16409 34945

Details

SP 1634 NW 9/113 BLOCKLEY BELL LANE (South+East side)

British Legion Club and Branch Library

GV II

Founded 1713 by Rev Erasmus Saunders, enlarged (and virtually rebuilt) by Lord Northwick 1826 (see inscription). Altered. 2 storeys with hipped roof, coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Built as a village school. North front: 3 bays, outer slightly angled back and have band over ground floor, centre breaks forward slightly and has open pediment. Latter has lunette window with flat bracketted label, panel below with inscription in latin. Three doorways below, centre double. Unsymmetrical window on 1st floor to right looks contemporary (1826). To left: a window on 1st floor and double doors below. To right: door on 1st floor, half-blocked window below.

Return to East: 2 wide bays of tripartite windows, casements; central doorway with open pedimented stone porch (entrance to Library). In 1867 partly taken over to house the village fire engine (until 1946).

Listing NGR: SP1640934945

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 126775
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.