THE EDITH PAYNE FREE LIBRARY

THE EDITH PAYNE FREE LIBRARY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191859
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1970
List Entry Name:: THE EDITH PAYNE FREE LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: THE EDITH PAYNE FREE LIBRARY, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2003-08-08
Reference:: IOE01/11054/09
Rights:: © Peter Karry. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191859
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: THE EDITH PAYNE FREE LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: THE EDITH PAYNE FREE LIBRARY, HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE EDITH PAYNE FREE LIBRARY, HIGH STREET

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Mid Sussex (District Authority)
Parish:: Cuckfield
National Grid Reference:: TQ 30442 24750

Details

TQ 3024 NW CUCKFIELD HIGH STREET (west side) 7/46 The Edith Payne Free 6.4.70 Library (formerly listed as Queen's Hall) II Hall and library. Dated 1897-1901 on porch. Sandstone ashlar with Horsham stone slab roof in Elizabethan style. 2 storeys, gable fronted. One large mullioned and transomed window to each floor with a blank one in gable, all with head moulds. Moulded band between floors. Gable has stone coping with finial and kneelers with lozenge decoration (probably copied from Marshalls qv Item 7/47). Bracketed eaves cornice to side. Right hand porch, slightly set back with late C16 style doorcase with 4 centred arch, mutule frieze, brackets, fluted pilasters with strapwork motifs below and blank shields and stylized leaves in the spandrels. Plank door. Above the door is the inscription 'Queen's Hall and Public Library 1897-1901' and a lamp. The interior contains a staircase with twisted balusters and a hall with hammer- beam style roof.

Listing NGR: TQ3044224750

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Legacy System number:: 302958
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.