PUBLIC LIBRARY

PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6, UPPER BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217723
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6, UPPER BRIDGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217723
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6, UPPER BRIDGE 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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Location

Statutory Address:: PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6, UPPER BRIDGE STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:: Wye with Hinxhill
National Grid Reference:: TR 05379 46662

Details

TR 0446 0546 WYE UPPER BRIDGE STREET (south side)

8/298 No. 6 (Public 27.11.57 Library)

GV II

House (former vicarage) now library. C18 with earlier core. Lobby entry plan. Painted brick with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic on plinth with moulded wooden modillion eaves cornice to roof with 3 hipped dormers and stacks to centre left and at end right. Four glazing bar sashes of different sizes on first floor, with 2 tripartite sashes to right on ground floor, all with rendered heads, and canted bay window to left. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels with semi-circular fanlight to centre left in boldly projecting porch with wooden masonry-block return walls and fluted frieze and with open pediment on panelled pilasters with entablature blocks.

Listing NGR: TR0538546662

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Legacy System number:: 412663
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.