Public Library
PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6, UPPER BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412663
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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