Northern Branch Library
NORTHERN BRANCH LIBRARY, BEVERLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197621
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Northern Branch Library
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHERN BRANCH LIBRARY, BEVERLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197621
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Northern Branch Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTHERN BRANCH LIBRARY, BEVERLEY 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:
- NORTHERN BRANCH LIBRARY, BEVERLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 08991 30104
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA0830 BEVERLEY ROAD 680-1/14/60 (East side) Northern Branch Library
II
Public library. 1894. By HA Cheers of Twickenham. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof with single gable and octagonal corner stacks. Plinth, rebuilt late C20, sill and impost bands, string courses, coped parapet and gables. Left wing has a large square louvred roof ventilator. Central block and right wing have smaller square domed turret ventilators. Single storey and 2 storeys; central block flanked by projecting gabled wings. Central block, 2 storeys, has a central projecting through-eaves dormer with a 3-light stone mullioned cross casement. In the gable, the inscription "Public Library" in raised lettering. Below, a substantial gabled brick porch with shouldered arched opening, flanked by partly reglazed transomed windows. In the right return angle, a 2-storey octagonal stair turret with 2 transomed single lancet windows and crenellated parapet, topped with a spire. Right wing has on each floor a transomed 3-light window with cornice. In the left return angle, a square single-storey projection with crenellated parapet. Left gable has square flanking buttresses topped with square-domed traceried turrets. Central 3-light stone mullioned cross casement set in a moulded arched opening with small flanking buttresses topped with gabled niches, and with a coat of arms in the tympanum. Polychrome gable peak has a traceried panel at the top. Left return to St Hilda Street, has a central gable with a 4-light stone mulluioned cross casement, flanked by single-storey projections with parapets and 4-light transomed casements.
Listing NGR: TA0899130104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387465
- 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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