LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227044
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1995
List Entry Name:: LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Statutory Address:: LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227044
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1995
List Entry Name:: LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Statutory Address 1:: LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD

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:: LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 58497 39536

Details

TUNBRIDGE WELLS MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD TQ5839NW 3/10005 Library and Museum II GV Library and museum. Built 1939 but fitted out during the Second World War. Designed by Percy Thomas and Ernest Prestwich after a competition in 1934 and one of a series of municipal buildings. Brown brick with reconstituted stone dressings. Stone coping and band with motto "LIBRARY AND MUSEUM". Two storeys, but front has windows on ground floor only. Eight 30-pane sashes and central tall window incorporating a double door with lotus decoration to side glazing and bas relief frieze above depicting various gods of Olympus, Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Athene etc. Interior has large well staircase with stylised Greek key design to cornice.

Listing NGR: TQ5849939524

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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.