Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum
PUBLIC LIBRARY, ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280595
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, BROAD STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280595
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, BROAD STREET
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:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hereford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 50890 39841
Details
HEREFORD
SO5039NE BROAD STREET 683-1/2/71 (West side) 22/10/73 Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum
GV II
Library, Art Gallery and Museum. c1874, by FR Kempson. Coursed dressed stone with ashlar dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof; brick end stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and cellar; 7-window range: plain lights with trefoil heads, grouped 2/3/2, with moulded pointed arches, enriched capitals and frieze, and central balcony; similar fenestration over, with enriched arches, and sillband; machicolated parapet with quartrefoils, and grotesques to coping; 3 large gable dormers with deep eaves on carved brackets; ornamental ridge tiles. Arcade of 5 pointed arches with wrought-iron gate to central entrance; enriched capitals and architrave; figures and arms over. INTERIOR: C19 Empire staircase with wrought-iron balusters to 1st floor; C19 dogleg staircase with stick balusters from 1st floor. Attic: 4-panel door. 2nd floor: 4-panel doors; fireplace; ceiling cornice. 1st floor (Woolhope Room): 2 fireplaces; cornice and 2 roses.
Listing NGR: SO5089039841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 372248
- 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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