Leigh Library
LEIGH LIBRARY, BROADWAY WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1112706
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Library
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH LIBRARY, BROADWAY WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1112706
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEIGH LIBRARY, BROADWAY WEST
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:
- LEIGH LIBRARY, BROADWAY WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Southend-on-Sea (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leigh-on-Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 83997 85898
Details
1. BROADWAY WEST 5219 LEIGH-ON-SEA Leigh Library TQ 8485 6/54 II 2. An early C19 red brick house with blue brick headers, built in 1838 in "Tudor" style as a rectory to St Clements Church and is now used as a library. 2 storeys and attics. The north front has 4 window range, casements with lattice leaded lights. A central brick porch projects on the front, with corner turrets and a stepped and gabled parapet with a stone coat of arms. The south front has 3 window range, mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights and moulded brick hood moulds. There are 3 gables with cut and shaped bargeboards. The end bays, of 1 window range each, break forward slightly and there is a central brick bay window with a gabled parapet bearing a coat of arms and the date 1838. On the east side there are 2 gabled projections, each of 1 window range and 1 window between and on the west side there is 1 gabled projection and a bay window. On the south-west corner there is an octagonal turret with a swept tiled spirelet terminated by a finial. Roof tiled, with 4 brick gabled dormers on the north front and 2 6-shafted chimney stacks with octagonal shafts, moulded caps and bases on rectangular bases.
Listing NGR: TQ8399785898
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122890
- 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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