District Central Library
DISTRICT CENTRAL LIBRARY, 254, CLIFTON DRIVE SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218789
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- District Central Library
- Statutory Address:
- DISTRICT CENTRAL LIBRARY, 254, CLIFTON DRIVE SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218789
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- District Central Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- DISTRICT CENTRAL LIBRARY, 254, CLIFTON DRIVE SOUTH
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:
- DISTRICT CENTRAL LIBRARY, 254, CLIFTON DRIVE SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Fylde (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Saint Anne's on the Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 32392 28353
Details
LYTHAM ST ANNES
SD32NW CLIFTON DRIVE SOUTH, St Annes 621-1/2/105 (South East side) No.254 District Central Library
II
Also known as: No.254 Carnegie Library CLIFTON DRIVE SOUTH St Annes. Public library. 1904-6, dated 1904 on east gable. Red brick in stretcher bond, with sandstone dressings, Cumbrian slate roof and copper-clad dome. Approximately rectangular plan formed by a tall open hall with an octagonal vestibule at the north-west corner, surrounded by single-storey reading rooms, offices, etc, including a porch in the splayed north-west corner. Eclectic style with Edwardian Baroque accent. Plain frieze, moulded cornice and brick parapet to both levels. The corner entrance has a round-headed doorway with banded head and a stone architrave including a pair of engaged columns with tall plinths and debased Ionic capitals, a pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice and an ogival-headed panel in the parapet with raised lettering "CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY"; and is flanked by keyed oculi. Above and behind is an octagonal lantern (to the vestibule) which has 2-light mullioned windows, small pediments on the cornice over these (alternately segmental and triangular), a parapet ramped up at the angles, and a green copper dome with a finely-detailed apex lantern and finial. The west returned side has one transomed 6-light window and 5 canted bay windows in similar style, all of stone; and, above and behind, the hall has a clerestory of three 4-light windows similar to those of the octagon; and a ridge ventilator to the roof. The north returned side, which is stepped and terminates in a tall gable which has a pedimental apex containing a plaque lettered "AD 1904", is in similar style. INTERIOR: tiled dado to porch and vestibule, double doors with Art Nouveau stained glass; 3-bay aisle arcaded east side of hall, with fluted pilasters and keyed elliptical arches; office on south side with octagonal skylight.
Listing NGR: SD3239228353
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385261
- 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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