Cheshunt Public Library
CHESHUNT PUBLIC LIBRARY, TURNERS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100575
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Cheshunt Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- CHESHUNT PUBLIC LIBRARY, TURNERS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100575
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Cheshunt Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESHUNT PUBLIC LIBRARY, TURNERS HILL
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:
- CHESHUNT PUBLIC LIBRARY, TURNERS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Broxbourne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36017 01955
Details
1. 5251 CHESHUNT TURNERS HILL (east side) Cheshunt Cheshunt Public Library TL 30SE : 5/45
II
2. 1907 by J Myrtle Smith. Good example of Wren revival. 1965 projecting side wings in same style and materials. Red brick, stone dressings. Gabled centre block has ground floor Roman Doric loggia with 2 columns, curved interior walls and niches in side walls. Upper floor arched, leaded window set in coved arch and having pedestal carved with armorial plaque, fruit swags and winged cherubs. Open pediment cornice with paired mutules. Hexagonal cupola with ogee copper dome and wrought iron weathervane. Mullioned and transomed ground floor casements, repeated in 4-window extensions.
Listing NGR: TL3601701955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157373
- 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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