Western Branch Library
WESTERN BRANCH LIBRARY, BOULEVARD, HULL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197625
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Western Branch Library
- Statutory Address:
- WESTERN BRANCH LIBRARY, BOULEVARD, HULL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197625
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Western Branch Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTERN BRANCH LIBRARY, BOULEVARD, HULL
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:
- WESTERN BRANCH LIBRARY, BOULEVARD, HULL
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 08007 27865
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017
TA02NE
680-1/8/70
KINGSTON UPON HULL
BOULEVARD (West side)
Western Branch Library
II
Library designed by architect W. Alfred Gelder and opened in 1894.
Brick with terracotta and ashlar dressings and slate roof. Renaissance Revival style. Plinth, rebuilt late C20, sill bands, string courses, moulded wavy topped parapet, coped gables. Two storeys; seven-window range. Windows are mainly sashes with six-pane upper lights and two-pane lower lights. Projecting central tower porch has octagonal buttresses topped with domed turrets, and a shaped gable with a triangular pediment and containing a louvred round opening. On the first floor, a canted stone bay window with a pediment and an ogee lead roof. Below, an entrance with heavy double pilasters and brackets to an open pediment, framing a round-arched entrance with panelled double doors and overlight. Each side bay has a projecting centre with ornamented pediment, topped with an arched moulded parapet and finial. Three windows on each floor. Between floors, in raised gilt lettering the inscription "Branch Public Library".
INTERIOR: has two round-arched three-bay arcades with round columns, glazed doors and screens.
Listing NGR: TA0800727865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Neave, David, Neave, Susan, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Hull, (2010), 166
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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