LIBRARY TOWN HALL TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1106388
Date first listed: 14-May-1984
Statutory Address: LIBRARY, FRONT STREET
Statutory Address: TOWN HALL, FRONT STREET
Statutory Address: TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, FRONT STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: LIBRARY, FRONT STREET
Statutory Address: TOWN HALL, FRONT STREET
Statutory Address: TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Cumbria
District: Eden (District Authority)
Parish: Alston Moor
National Grid Reference: NY 71769 46474
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
NY 7146 ALSTON MOOR FRONT STREET,
ALSTON (South side)
24/56 Town Hall, Library,
& Trustee Savings
Bank
G.V. II
Municipal Offices. 1857 by A.B. Higham of Newcastle. Rough-faced snecked
rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth; 1st floor string. Graduated slate roofs
with stone copings, kneelers and corniced stone chimneys. Gothic style.
Asymmetrical north front of 2 storeys with attic; 5 bays. Doorway with pointed
head in ground floor of central tower which carried clock turret. Mullioned and
transomed windows, some under hoodmoulds. Bank entrance at left. Library at
right has large 4-light 1st floor window with cusped heads to lights under
pointed containing arch; flanking niches. Symmetrical 3-bay west return of
similar style with central gabled dormer; similar dormers on main front.
Listing NGR: NY7176946474
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 73116
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.
End of official listing