CHESHUNT PUBLIC LIBRARY

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:: CHESHUNT PUBLIC LIBRARY, TURNERS HILL

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Date:: 2004-02-10
Reference:: IOE01/10516/36
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Official list entry

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

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 157373
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.