The Gothick Library
THE GOTHICK LIBRARY, PETERSFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092129
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Gothick Library
- Statutory Address:
- THE GOTHICK LIBRARY, PETERSFIELD ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05806/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092129
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Gothick Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GOTHICK LIBRARY, PETERSFIELD ROAD
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:
- THE GOTHICK LIBRARY, PETERSFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Havant (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 72089 08599
Details
SU 70 NW HAVANT PETERSFIELD ROAD Leigh Park
4/9 The Gothick Library II
Chapter house. 1832, by Vuillamy. The shell of a building once attached to the Regency mansion, which was later demolished. Stucco on the parts once exposed to view, brick on 2 faces; pyramid slate roof. Octagonal plan. Crocketted pinnacles above stepped buttresses at the angles; between them a parapet has a moulded canopy and a dripstone band, enclosing 6 diamond cusped panels (to 4 faces); a hood-mould to the pointed 2-light window, which has tracery in its upper part and cusped ogees below a transom: a moulded (dripstone) base. 4 sides have windows of the full height, one with the doorway formed below the transom; the other windows have cills at transom level. At the 'rear', 2 faces have brickwork, and there is an octagonal buttress, rising above the parapet as a crenellated turret (being the flue from the fireplace). Within, the roof frame is late C20, the windows remain unglazed, but there are fragments of plasterwork with cusped quatrefoils. The fireplace is opposite the doorway. There are prints, which show the original appearance, with shelving up to the higher cill levels.
Listing NGR: SU7148499439
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 135445
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 19 Hampshire,
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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