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LIBRARY, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1220603
Date first listed:
09-Apr-1991
Statutory Address:
LIBRARY, LONDON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1220603
Date first listed:
09-Apr-1991
Statutory Address 1:
LIBRARY, LONDON ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
LIBRARY, LONDON ROAD

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

District:
City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 87541 44997

Details

STOKE ON TRENT

SJ84NE LONDON ROAD 613-1/4/134 (North West side) 09/04/91 Library

GV II

Library, purpose-built as library and Shakespeare Institute in 1878. By Charles Lynam. Brick with stone dressings, enriched with tiled panels and mosaics. 2-storeyed over a basement, 5 bays, stepped in plan. Red brick to basement, then white brick above, with rubbed red brick pilasters and architraves to windows in the advanced 3-bay section to the SW. 3 oculi, with tiled panels over, and mosaic depicting Shakespeare in the central panel. Stone band embellished with motifs, and continuous band of casement windows immediately below the overhanging eaves. Doorway in recessed bay to NE with terracotta entablature and mosaic panel over with the date and foundation details. Tiled panels continue round side elevations, and depict flowers in urns, now very faded. Gable end stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ8754144997

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384432
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