Central Library
CENTRAL LIBRARY, GARRICK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201811
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Central Library
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL LIBRARY, GARRICK STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-03-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/03642/15
- Rights:
- © Mr D.R. Smith. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201811
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Central Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL LIBRARY, GARRICK STREET
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:
- CENTRAL LIBRARY, GARRICK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 91619 98376
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198SE GARRICK STREET 895-1/14/223 (East side) 03/02/77 Central Library (Formerly Listed as: GARRICK STREET Library)
II*
Public Library. 1900-1902. By H.T.Hare. Brick with yellow terracotta dressings; tile roof. Free Renaissance style. 2 storeys; 7-bay facade to Garrick St, canted 4-bay corner and 3-bay facade to St.George's Parade. Terracotta plinth and top frieze and coped parapet; 1st bay breaks forward with parapeted return, 2nd bay has coped gable with panel to apex. Ground floor has segmental-headed windows with moulded arches, fixed glazing with central arched lights and leaded glazing, between flat banded buttresses; 1st floor has 2-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows, friezes with names of eminent poets and broken pediments with panels; these are laced with strips to round attic windows with keystones; 1st bay has tall window of 2 narrow lights with transom over panel and semi-circular open pediment; entrance with architrave and flanking banding and triple keystone in tympanum; half-glazed door retains letterbox. Pavilion roof has fleche and stack; C20 extension to left returned to Old Hall St. Corner to right has 3-bay centre breaking forward under coped gable with top niche. Banded ground floor has 2 cross-mullioned windows; 1st floor has 3+3+3-light windows with Ionic colonnettes, transom and central pediment, apron panels have Royal arms and flanking town arms; attic has small Venetian window; flanking bays have small paired lights with pediments and top lunettes with battered octagonal cupolas. Top louvre with fleche. 3-bay arcade with giant triple keystones to recessed entrances flanking window. Facade to St.George's Parade as above but 1st floor has central bowed oriel of 4 lights and 2 transoms with flanking lights, segmental gable over, and 2 cross-mullioned windows with name-friezes and segmental pediments. INTERIOR: stair with balustrade and lantern, rooms with Ionic columns; 1st floor has barrel- vaulted room with aisles with balustraded balconies, and room with glazed dome on Ionic columns. A particularly good example of this style. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.317).
Listing NGR: SO9161998376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378408
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 317
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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