Tuckton Public Library

TUCKTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 28, WICK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1154041
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:
Tuckton Public Library
Statutory Address:
TUCKTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 28, WICK LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1154041
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:
Tuckton Public Library
Statutory Address 1:
TUCKTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 28, WICK LANE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TUCKTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 28, WICK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bournemouth
National Grid Reference:
SZ 15148 92037

Details

1. 5186 WICK LANE (South West Side) No 28 (Tuckton Public Library) SZ 1592 37/290

II

2. Converted from an Edwardian villa, Broom Close,1908. Pebbledash (large pebbles) on random Purbeck stone plinth. Hipped tiled roofs of splayed outline; tall chimneys of Lutyens type, with pairs of diagonally set stacks of thin red bricks on high bases. Porch in projecting 2-storey centre of asymmetrical facade: segmental hood to deeply splayed stone-faced opening, 4-centred inner arch. Casement windows with white timber mullions. Asymmetrical canted bay windows to ground floor of flank. Garden side almost symmetrical, with two 2-storey canted bays. Interior modernised.

Listing NGR: SZ1514892037

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
101899
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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