Macclesfield Public Library
MACCLESFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY, PARK GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279974
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Macclesfield Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- MACCLESFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY, PARK GREEN
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- Date:
- 1999-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/01620/04
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279974
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Macclesfield Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- MACCLESFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY, PARK GREEN
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:
- MACCLESFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY, PARK GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Macclesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 91780 73270
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9173SE PARK GREEN 886-1/12/155 (South side) 17/03/77 Macclesfield Public Library (Formerly Listed as: PARK GREEN (South side) Chadwick Library)
GV II
Library. 1874-6. By James Stevens of Macclesfield. Altered and refurbished c1950. Uncoursed and squared freestone with steep Welsh slate roofs. PLAN: complex plan comprising 2 parallel ranges which form semi-octagons to Park Green elevation where they are linked by a canted porch. Present entrance now in Park Lane, but original doorways survive as windows in porch, up steps which have now been removed. EXTERIOR: banded polished granite shafts and polychrome stone work to Gothick entrance arch set in steep triangular gable with busts at apex. Top-lit left-hand range has paired lancet windows beneath gable with rose window over. The coped gable is carried on corbels. Similar lancet lights with transom in left-hand face of wing. Right-hand block has triple lancet window with transom and ornate feature to splayed angle: a central buttress carries a projecting panel and shafts support an arch above with 'Macclesfield Free Library 1876' inscribed over a coat of arms. Parapet above is carried on corbel beasts' heads, and is surmounted by a conical spirelet. Return elevation to Park Lane has 2 triple lancets with corbelled dormer gables above, the present entrance inserted c1850 and cut through a former triple window. Plainer wing beyond a later addition with paired and single-light sash windows. INTERIOR: although layout has been modified, the original roof structure remains visible, with heavy moulded timber hammer beam trusses with cast-iron supporting brackets.
Listing NGR: SJ9178273270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391062
- 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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