Winchester Library

Winchester Library, The Arc, Jewry Street, SO23 8SB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1095414
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: Winchester Library
Statutory Address:: Winchester Library, The Arc, Jewry Street, SO23 8SB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1095414
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: Winchester Library
Statutory Address 1:: Winchester Library, The Arc, Jewry Street, SO23 8SB

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:: Winchester Library, The Arc, Jewry Street, SO23 8SB

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 48019 29763

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 March 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SU 4829 NW 3/139

JEWRY STREET (West Side) The Arc Winchester Library

(Formerly listed as The Public Library)

24.3.50.

II*

Completed 1838. O B Carter, Architect. Street front one storey. Central projecting portico with four Tuscan stone columns on flight of stone steps, with symmetrical wings and angle pavilions of yellow stock bricks on stone plinth, with moulded stone string at springing of window arches, large rusticated stone quoins, wide flat bracketed eaves cornice. Similar treatment to pediment over central portico Above the portico is a square bell turret with brick base, stone string and corner Doric stone pilasters (painted) crowned with wide eaves cornice, similar to main building, with wooden painted louvres on each side. All roofs of slate. Building 1+3+2+3+1 windows with doorway in centre. Windows to wings and pavilions have arched heads with radiating bars. Those in wings evidently altered, and stone string at springing cut away.

Formerly a Corn Exchange. This building has very strong character and is reminiscent of Smirke's designs. The whole restored to its original external appearance in 1965, but interior completely re-modelled.

Listing NGR: SU4800729640

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Legacy System number:: 144660
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.