Prince Consort Library
PRINCE CONSORT LIBRARY, KNOLLYS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092600
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Prince Consort Library
- Statutory Address:
- PRINCE CONSORT LIBRARY, KNOLLYS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092600
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Prince Consort Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRINCE CONSORT LIBRARY, KNOLLYS 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:
- PRINCE CONSORT LIBRARY, KNOLLYS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Rushmoor (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 85764 51315
Details
SU 85 SE
991-0/2/43
20.8.79
ALDERSHOT
KNOLLY'S ROAD
(North side)
Prince Consort Library
II
Library and flat, now office. 1860, designed by Cpt Francis Fowke RE, at the instigation and cost of Prince Albert; extended early-mid C20. Yellow brick with red brick dressings, ridge stack encased in weatherboarded lower section and rear gable stack, and slate roof Rectangular plan with parallel left-hand side extension. EXTERIOR: single storey; 3-bay front gable and 8-bay sides. Front entrance gable divided by pilaster strips into 3 sunken sections, wider in the
middle, with brick corbel table and red brick eaves cornice to coped gable; recessed ground floor behind a loggia of open segmental red brick arches, first-floor arcades of red brick round-arched windows, 3 to the middle and 2 each side with a royal coat of arms above, and decorated panels beneath. The right-hand return has arcade of blind segmental arches and enriched brick eaves cornice. Roof with long flush glazed lights. Lower left-hand C20 range has a gable divided into 4 sunken sections with projecting mid C20 porch, and paired first-floor round-arched windows. INTERIOR: main section divided into the reading room, with a timber gallery on three sides with simple diagonally-braced rail and iron ties bolted to timber trusses, and a front librarian's flat, now office, with a meeting room over the ground floor loggia, original fireplaces and stairs up with stick balusters, column newels and wreathed rail. Fittings: Original fittings include book shelves, reading desks and chairs. HISTORY: originally with accommodation for the librarian, hence the heated front section. One of the first barracks libraries to be built, for which the Prince donated 2000 books. Specially significant for the involvement of both the Prince Consort and Fowke, the designer of the Albert Hall, and for the notable survival of many of the original fittings. (Vickers P H: A Gift So Generously Bestowed: The Prince Consort's Library: Winchester: 1992-; Childerhouse T: Military Aldershot, the first fifty years: London: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SU8596151712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 137869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vickers, PH, A Gift So Generously Bestowed The Prince Consorts Library, (1992)
Childerhouse, T, Military Aldershot the first fifty years, (1990)
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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