Carnegie Building and No. 72
72, NORTHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250388
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Carnegie Building and No. 72
- Statutory Address:
- 72, NORTHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250388
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Carnegie Building and No. 72
- Statutory Address 1:
- 72, NORTHGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- CARNEGIE BUILDING, NORTHGATE
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:
- 72, NORTHGATE
- Statutory Address:
- CARNEGIE BUILDING, NORTHGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Headland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ5237234115
Details
NZ 53 SW
4/83
HARTLEPOOL,
NORTHGATE (east side), Headland,
Carnegie Building and No. 72
(Formerly listed as Public Library and former Librarian's House (No. 72))
II
Carnegie Library and librarian's house, all now in library use; 1903 on
foundation stone between 3rd and 4th bay, by H.C. Crummack, Borough
Engineer. Brick, in Flemish bond, with simulated stone dressings and Welsh
slate roof. Northern Renaissance style, on wedge-shaped plan. 2 storeys, 6
bays to principal (south-west) front, first and 6th bays wider and
projecting slightly. Left bay has round-headed opening to porch, flanked by
paired consoles supporting pilasters and scrolled, swan-neck pediment.
Carved ornamentation in spandrels below inscribed frieze. Octagonal
bartizans at angles of bay capped with domes. Round-headed first-floor
window has timber mullions and transoms with quasi-classical motifs. Blind
oculus, holding seal of Hartlepool, in gable, flanked by octagonal lesenes
supporting urn finials. Moulded-diaper pattern brickwork in apex of gable.
6th bay has tripartite casement window on each floor, with glazing bars to
top lights. Scrolled, swan-neck pediment over ground-floor windows; shaped,
pedimented gable above first floor with dated cartouche in ornamented panel
below cornice. Other bays defined by pilasters, have cross window to each
floor with glazing bars to top lights. Library subject titles inscribed in
frieze above each window. Continuous entablatures between floors and below
straight parapet with pyramidal finials. Hipped and gabled roof. Narrow
right (east) return has square projecting bay under shaped, pedimented
gable, flanked by recessed quadrant bays in the angles, all with cross
windows, those to square bay flanked by pilasters. Librarian's house
adjoins north-west side : 2 storeys and 2 bays. Doorway to left under
mullioned overlight and serpentine pediment. Cross windows have glazing
bars to upper lights. Narrow moulded string courses continued from heads
and sills of windows. Moulded eaves cornice. 2-bay left wing has octagonal
tower to first floor, with ogee dome and timber ball finial on stem. Brick
stack to rear. Ornamental cast iron area railings to rear of library and
front of librarian's house. Mid/late C20 single-storey extension, to left
of librarian's house, is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ5237234115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432704
- 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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