FORMER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY

FORMER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, ANLABY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197652
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: FORMER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, ANLABY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197652
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, ANLABY ROAD

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:: FORMER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, ANLABY 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 07427 28754

Details

TA02NE 680-1/8/31

KINGSTON UPON HULL ANLABY ROAD (North side) Former Carnegie Public Library

(Formerly listed as Carnegie Public Library at south entrance to West Park)

GV II

Former Public library. Dated 1905. By JH Hirst, City Architect. Paid for by Andrew Carnegie Foundation. Half-timbered Domestic Revival style. Brick, partly timber-framed, with rendered nogging. Hipped plain tile roofs. Deep eaves with gutter on wrought-iron scroll brackets. L-plan with limbs of unequal size, and a 2-storey octagonal porch at the inside angle. Octagonal porch has a close studded first floor and a pyramidal roof topped with a weather vane. Above, eight 2-light leaded casements, with a panel under the front one inscribed "Carnegie Public Library". Below, a projecting single-storey porch with close studded gable and a pair of half-glazed doors with side lights. Beyond, on either side, a 2-light window with brick mullion. Main wing, to right, 3 storeys, 4 bays, has an open wooden arcade with segment-headed bays and beneath it, a pair of glazed doors with side and top lights with glazing bars. Above, a box dormer with 5 glazing bar lights. Right return has a similar arcade, 3 bays, with a pair of doors and a similar dormer above. At the rear, three 3-light glazing bar cross casements. Smaller left wing has a large external brick stack at the outer end. Close studded upper part has a single light leaded window. Brick underbuild has a segment-headed cellar opening and to left a small brick mullioned 2-light window. INTERIOR has an octagonal entrance hall articulated by fluted wooden columns, with glazed brick dado and mosaic frieze. Leaded glazed double doors and screens and corniced issue desk with similar screen. Main wing has fitted corniced bookshelves and common rafter roof.

Listing NGR: TA0742728754

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Legacy System number:: 387436
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.