Former Library Premises
FORMER LIBRARY PREMISES, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283209
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Former Library Premises
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER LIBRARY PREMISES, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283209
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Former Library Premises
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER LIBRARY PREMISES, MAIN 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:
- FORMER LIBRARY PREMISES, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bingley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 10759 39114
Details
SE1039SE BINGLEY MAIN STREET (east side) Bingley
9/117 Former Library 18.6.81 premises
GV II
Former library. Mid C19. Hammer-dressed stone with polychrome ashlar dressings, blocked slate roof. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys and attic. Street front: prominent gable with separate porch to left containing pointed-arched cusped doorway with moulded surround and colonnettes, steeply-pitched coped gable with ornamental crested ridge. Library has 3 bays of 2-centred arched cusped windows with continuous hoodmould. Set in bays between at 1st-floor, 2 tall 2-centred arched 2-light mullioned-and-transomed windows with geometrical tracery and sill band. Set under: 2 quatrefoil panels with foliage carving and carved ribbons inscribed respectively "Public and "Library". Set above: clock in circular panel. Steeply-pitched coped gable with kneelers and stack to apex with 2 coupled octagonal ashlar flues. Rear has bay with hipped roof against main gable with ridge stack. Right-hand return of 5 bays with 2-centred arched cusped windows to ground floor and 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows above. Left-hand return: 3 bays of similar windows. Louvre to ridge and 3 gabled vents to each pitch of roof.
Prominent within the town.
Listing NGR: SE1075939114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337968
- 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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