Brunner Public Library
BRUNNER PUBLIC LIBRARY, 89, WITTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161149
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Brunner Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- BRUNNER PUBLIC LIBRARY, 89, WITTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161149
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Brunner Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRUNNER PUBLIC LIBRARY, 89, WITTON 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:
- BRUNNER PUBLIC LIBRARY, 89, WITTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northwich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 66083 74049
Details
SJ 67 SE NORTHWICH C.P. WITTON STREET (North Side)
5/49 No. 89 (Brunner Public Library)
II
Public Library and Salt Museum, now Library and Exhibition Room, 1909, A E Powles architect and W Wood of Hartford builder. A subsidence-liftable structure of oak small framing with plaster panels on brick plinth; slate roof. 2 storeys, symmetrical, with projecting cross-wing to each side of central block of 3 windows. Ogee Tudor arch contains shaped boarded double doors of oak; basket-arched oak boarded door to each cross-wing. 2 mullioned and transomed leaded casements to lower storey of central block and 3 to upper storey; 1 mullioned and transomed leaded casement to lower storey of each cross-wing with canted oriel on shaped brackets above, under jettied gable on shaped brackets, with carved bargeboards and finial. Shaped red brick chimney on centre of ridge and at junction with left cross-wing. Single storey rear wing. Interior: Somewhat altered, framed throughout with stopped ovolo beams, contains plaques of former library (1885 by M K Ellerton for John Brunner and present library 1909 by A E Powles for the then Sir John Brunner Bart. MP).
Listing NGR: SJ6608374049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57644
- 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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