PREMISES OCCUPIED BY DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY

PREMISES OCCUPIED BY DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY, BELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209977
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: PREMISES OCCUPIED BY DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: PREMISES OCCUPIED BY DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY, BELL STREET

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Date:: 2001-10-12
Reference:: IOE01/03393/24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209977
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: PREMISES OCCUPIED BY DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: PREMISES OCCUPIED BY DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY, BELL STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PREMISES OCCUPIED BY DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY, BELL STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shaftesbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 86426 23125

Details

1. 1615 BELL STREET (South Side) Premises occupied by Dorset County Library ST 8623 1/123 II 2. Good Victorian essay in a Georgian manner. 2 storeys and attic. 3 windows. Slate gabled roof; narrow flanking stacks of ashlar with capping. Rough ashlar front. Giant pilasters at ends and flanking each window bay with dentil course and band above at eaves level. Band above ground floor. Windows in reveals; no glazing bars; moulded stone architraves with keystones; shaped aprons. Round-headed doorway; door in reveals; architrave with keystone; round-headed stone hood resting on corbels on shaped stone brackets; small ball finial over.

Listing NGR: ST8631923066

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Legacy System number:: 101960
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.