Wiltshire County Library
WILTSHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270950
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Wiltshire County Library
- Statutory Address:
- WILTSHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270950
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Wiltshire County Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILTSHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY, NEW 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:
- WILTSHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Calne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99797 70892
Details
CALNE
ST9970 NEW ROAD 755-1/5/110 (East side) 08/07/76 Wiltshire County Library
II
Library. c1904. Donated by Andrew Carnegie. Coursed, squared limestone rubble, limestone dressings, with slate hipped roof. Single-depth plan with rear wing. Eclectic Tudor and Jacobean Revival style. Single storey; 2-window range. Divided by octagonal panelled pilasters to onion finials, with a plinth, cornice and parapet with curved sunken cusped panels. A narrow right-hand bay, with the entrance to the left flanked by buttresses on foliate carved corbels and raised finials, to a round-arched entrance with raised voussoirs, foliate carved spandrels, and recessed 2-leaf door; a panel above with PUBLIC LIBRARY in raised letters, and a cartouche in the gable with Wiltshire coat of arms, and winged cupid. 3-light stone-mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded cross windows with 9-pane top windows. Crested ridge with end finials. Rear 5-bay range has lunettes. INTERIOR: details include an arch-braced truss roof.
Listing NGR: ST9979770892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456740
- 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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