Sunderland Corporation West Branch Library
SUNDERLAND CORPORATION WEST BRANCH LIBRARY, KAYLL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208734
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sunderland Corporation West Branch Library
- Statutory Address:
- SUNDERLAND CORPORATION WEST BRANCH LIBRARY, KAYLL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208734
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sunderland Corporation West Branch Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNDERLAND CORPORATION WEST BRANCH LIBRARY, KAYLL 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:
- SUNDERLAND CORPORATION WEST BRANCH LIBRARY, KAYLL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 37906 56427
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE KAYLL ROAD 920-1/4/134 (West side) Sunderland Corporation West Branch Library
GV II
Branch library. Dated 1909. Architect Hugh TD Hedley, contractor WB Cooper, donor of site Ald. Wm Burns J.P. Bright red stretcher bond brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; roof of Lakeland slates. Baroque style. EXTERIOR: one storey, 2:2:2 windows. Renewed side steps to central porch; panelled door, middle panels round in style of many C19 Sunderland doors, in architrave with curved projecting key to entablature with BRANCH LIBRARY incised on frieze; heavily rusticated attached columns and ogee dentilled pediment with date 1909 in carved tympanum. End pairs of windows in projections with rusticated pilasters suporting open dentilled pediments with Borough arms; single windows flank porch. All windows sashes with glazing bars, with long triple keys on lugged architraves. Dentilled cornice breaks forward to pediments and supports balustrade over recesses flanking porch, corniced panels over outer blind bays, and raised panels with cornice and blocking course over pediments. Commemorative stone at left names site donor and architect and Town Clerk; another at right names contractor, Mayor and officials. One of 3 libraries (the others Monkwearmouth (qv) and Hendon) paid for by Andrew Carnegie with »10,000 given to provide 2 libraries. (Monkwearmouth Memories: Sunderland: 1989-: 3).
Listing NGR: NZ3790656427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391512
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Monkwearmouth Memories, (1989), 3
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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