Didsbury Public Library
DIDSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY, WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254968
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Didsbury Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- DIDSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY, WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254968
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Didsbury Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIDSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY, WILMSLOW ROAD
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:
- DIDSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY, WILMSLOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84658 91288
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/8/672 (West side) 03/10/74 Didsbury Public Library
GV II
Public library. 1915, by Henry Price (City Architect). Red brick with dressings of Portland stone, slate roofs. Triangular plan with 2 wings at an acute angle hinged on an octagonal drum, the angle between the wings filled by a hall. Eclectic style with Gothic features. High single storey, dominated by the drum. This rises to a clerestory and has coupled corner pilasters, 3-light mullioned windows with cusped tracery and hoodmoulds, an emphatic sill-band carried round, a deep stone parapet with an upstand in each side, and an octahedral roof surmounted by a finial with weathervane. The front (to the north-east) is enclosed (inter alia) by a single-storey 3-sided porch in the form of a buttressed arcade of 2-centred arches, with an embattled parapet and pyramidal roof, and the parapet carries round angled side-lobbies on both sides. The wings have mullioned and double-transomed windows rising into gablets above the parapet; and hipped roofs.
Listing NGR: SJ8465891288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458449
- 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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