Dalton Public Library
DALTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, NELSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218473
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Dalton Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- DALTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, NELSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218473
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Dalton Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- DALTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, NELSON 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:
- DALTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, NELSON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalton Town with Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 22905 74173
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD2274 NELSON STREET, Dalton In Furness 708-1/10/204 (East side) Dalton Public Library
GV II
Library. Dated 1903. For Dalton-in-Furness Urban Council; patron Andrew Carnegie. Snecked limestone with red ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys and attic; 1:3 bays, bay 1 set forward and gabled; 3-bay right return. Chamfered and rock-faced plinth; large quoins. Ground and 1st floors have cross-windows in chamfered surrounds with string courses across the transoms. Central entrance with panelled double doors, fanlight with wrought-iron tracery and keyed archivolt; 2 tall windows on right. Bay 1 has ashlar, 3-light bay window with narrow side-lights and cornice surmounted by corner pedestals with gadrooned vases. Cornice continues beneath ashlar limestone frieze inscribed 'CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY 1903'. 1st floor: moulded sill band and drip-moulds; bay 1 with canted bay-window of 1:2:1 lights having guilloche on apron and swept parapet copings. 2nd floor: 2-light mullioned windows with dentilled, moulded sills and dripmoulds; bay-1 window has shaped apron and scrolled dripmould from which rises a shaft that cuts a string course and divides a louvred 2-light attic opening with scrolled hood-mould. Corbelled shafts also rise at each end of gable and link to moulded finials set on shaped kneelers; stepped gable copings with apex finial. Eaves over bays 2-4 have corbel table and decorative cast-iron rainwater goods. End stack on left with offset and cornice; right end gable treated as bay 1. Right return: twin-gabled, flat elevation in same style. INTERIOR: tiled dado to entrance/stair hall. Stone staircase with square, cast-iron newel post and simple cast-iron balustrade panels to wooden handrail.
Listing NGR: SD2290574173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388541
- 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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