Walkley Public Library
WALKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, SOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1247394
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1993
- Statutory Address:
- WALKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, SOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1247394
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WALKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, WALKLEY ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WALKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, WALKLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 33146 88781
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW SOUTH ROAD 784-1/5/740 (South West side) 19/02/93 Walkley Public Library (Formerly Listed as: WALKLEY ROAD Walkley Free Library)
GV II
Public library. Dated 1904, with mid C20 alterations. By Hemsoll & Patterson. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. Tudor Revival style. Plinth, low coped parapet and gables. Single storey plus attics; 4 x 4 windows. Corner site with angled entrance bay. Entrance bay has parapeted shouldered gable with ramped corner buttresses. Central 3-light stone mullioned window with inscribed panel above, flanked by round-arched panels with oval cartouches. Below, a flat-roofed segmental portico with curved stone steps, 6 Ionic columns and entablature. Splayed entrance with recessed panelled double doors. On either side, a 2-light stone mullioned window between the outer pairs of columns. Each return has in the centre two 3-light stone mullioned cross casements with cornice. Beyond, towards the entrance, a flat-roofed octagonal bay window with 3 stone mullioned cross casements. At the outer end, a projecting shouldered gable with a canted stone bay window with a stone mullioned cross casement and transomed flanking lights. INTERIOR has segmental arches and shaped wooden brackets to the roof. Mid C20 bookcases.
Listing NGR: SK3314688781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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