Winton Public Library
WINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, WIMBORNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154082
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Winton Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- WINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, WIMBORNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154082
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Winton Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- WINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, WIMBORNE ROAD
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:
- WINTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, WIMBORNE ROAD
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 08681 94129
Details
1. 5186 WIMBORNE ROAD (South West Side) Winton Public Library SZ O894 16/163
II
2. 1907-8, H E Hawker and Mitchell. Edwardian classical public building, a slightly more elaborate version of Springbourne library (see Holdenhurst Road). Symmetrical red brick and stone front, entrance up curved steps, with coat-of-arms in segmental pediment, between Ionic pilasters carrying obelisks. Gables left and right with diamond patterning in stone apex, big lunette windows with stone mullions and transom - 3 lights over 5 lights. Gables flanked by flat brick buttresses banded in stone. Slate roof with white timber louvred cupola, battered sides, low leaded dome, ornamental finial and weathervane. Flanks have 3 tall windows carried up as dormers, flat-headed to south, semi-circular (with leaded roofs) to north. Moulded stone sills and timber cornices, leaded lights. Asymmetrical single-storey rear, with hipped roofs in echelon and tall chimney with vertical panels. Interior with barrel-roofed hall behind each gable, modernised.
Listing NGR: SZ0868194129
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101907
- 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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