Public Library
PUBLIC LIBRARY, COMMERCIAL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135104
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, COMMERCIAL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135104
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, COMMERCIAL STREET
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:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, COMMERCIAL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Morley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 26395 27874
Details
SE2627NW LS27 COMMERCIAL STREET MORLEY (west side)
8/19 Public Library
II GV Public library. 1905-6. Ashlar facade, hammer-dressed stone to sides and rear, Welsh blue-slate roof. 2-storey front block, single-storey rear range. 6-bay symmetrical facade with lst-floor entablature and dentil cornice. Outer bays set forward slightly have tripartite windows with Ionic outer pilasters and engaged columns as mullions. 1st floor has quoin pilasters with cornice, entablature and open triangular pediment with bracketed cornice above window in eared architrave with triple keystone and segmental pediment. Central 2 bays have portal with Ionic pilasters and columns, entablature supporting segmental pediment, doorway with eared architrave, frieze and triple keystone the tympanum with foliated carved cartouche, and double doors each of 3 raised-and-fielded panels. Doorway flanked by narrow windows in eared architraves with triple keystones. Windows above articulated by Ionic pilasters. Bracketed cornice and balustraded parapet. Hipped roof to front 2 bays. Rear: attached single-storey block has 5 bays of plain rectangular windows with chamfered lintels and sills. Gutter brackets and coped gable with ridge stack.
Interior: tiled entrance hall with mosaic floor has Ionic pilasters flanking wall plaque recording "THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF ANDREW CARNEGIE Esq. : : : OF SKIBO CASTLE, SCOTLAND 1905-6: AND OPENED BY HALL CAINE Esq. 27th Oct. 1906".
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SE2639527874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341809
- 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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