Tunstall Public Library and Public Baths

TUNSTALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND PUBLIC BATHS, THE BOULEVARD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195847
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Tunstall Public Library and Public Baths
Statutory Address:
TUNSTALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND PUBLIC BATHS, THE BOULEVARD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195847
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Tunstall Public Library and Public Baths
Statutory Address 1:
TUNSTALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND PUBLIC BATHS, THE BOULEVARD

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TUNSTALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND PUBLIC BATHS, THE BOULEVARD

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

District:
City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ8609451350

Details

SJ 85 SE; 613-1/2/165

STOKE ON TRENT,
TUNSTALL,
THE BOULEVARD (north side)

Tunstall Public Library and Public Baths

II

Public Library, formerly Victoria Institute, and public baths.
1889. Brick with stone and terracotta dressings and plain
tiled roofs. Three-storeyed, main elevation of nine bays (4-1-4),
with projecting central entrance porch with Jacobean
detailing: round-arched doorway with frieze in flanking stone
pilasters, and coat of arms in shallow segmental pediment. Two
large mullioned and transomed windows above, and pedimented
gable with arms.
Outer bays of banded brick to ground floor, with stone
mullioned windows with stone dressings - continuous sills and
hoodmoulds. Terracotta frieze over windows reading "Free
Library Public Baths, Art and Science Institute". Consoles
carry pilasters articulating the first storey, and a
projecting cornice beneath round-arched arcade of windows in
the attic storey.
Four bays to Greengates Street similarly detailed, and a massive
hanging wrought-iron sign reading "Thomas Nash Peake gave this
AD 1901" and on the obverse, "Tunstall Free Library. William
Dunrose made this, AD 1901" in Gothic script.
Public Baths is a two-storeyed brick building to Greengates
Street, linked to the library via its rear courtyard range.

A significant example of the provision of municipal facilities
in late C19.


Listing NGR: SJ8637043340

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
384492
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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