CRUMPSALL AND CHEETHAM DISTRICT LIBRARY, WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS

CRUMPSALL AND CHEETHAM DISTRICT LIBRARY, WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, CHEETHAM HILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197785
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: CRUMPSALL AND CHEETHAM DISTRICT LIBRARY, WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: CRUMPSALL AND CHEETHAM DISTRICT LIBRARY, WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, CHEETHAM HILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197785
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: CRUMPSALL AND CHEETHAM DISTRICT LIBRARY, WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: CRUMPSALL AND CHEETHAM DISTRICT LIBRARY, WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, CHEETHAM HILL 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:: CRUMPSALL AND CHEETHAM DISTRICT LIBRARY, WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, CHEETHAM HILL ROAD

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

District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 83885 01686

Details

MANCHESTER

SD80SW CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, Cheetham 698-1/2/562 (East side) 03/10/74 Crumpsall and Cheetham District Library, with attached railings

II

Public library, now office and community centre. 1909-11, by Henry Price (the City Architect); altered. Red brick and white limestone with dressings of the same (roof concealed). Rectangular plan on corner site. Edwardian Baroque style. High single storey over basement, 3 wide bays, symmetrical, consisting of projected wings embracing a central entrance lobby with projected porch; with basement of heavily rock-faced masonry, stone quoins to the wings, and high stepped stone parapet. The centre, of limestone ashlar, has a rectangular porch with channelled rustication, a round-headed doorway with voluted keystone and open-pedimented architrave with coupled columns, and semi-spherical roof; the wings have modillioned open pediments, broad quoined pilasters with cartouches lettered "SCOTT" and "MILTON" (left wing) "SHAKESPEARE" and "DICKENS" (right wing), and modillioned friezes and pediments, and in the centre of each wing a tall round-headed window with limestone surround including carved apron and elongated triple keystone. Five-bay left return wall in simpler style, with segmental-headed windows. Basement area protected by wrought-iron railings with limestone piers, geometrical open-work standards, bar railings with attached swags and festoons, and flaming-urn finials. Interior: segmental arcades (blocked); segmental-vaulted ceiling; otherwise altered.

Listing NGR: SD8388501686

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Legacy System number:: 387992
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.