Edward Pease Public Library and Darlington Art Gallery
EDWARD PEASE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND DARLINGTON ART GALLERY, CROWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322938
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Edward Pease Public Library and Darlington Art Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- EDWARD PEASE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND DARLINGTON ART GALLERY, CROWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322938
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Edward Pease Public Library and Darlington Art Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDWARD PEASE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND DARLINGTON ART GALLERY, CROWN 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:
- EDWARD PEASE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND DARLINGTON ART GALLERY, CROWN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29055 14642
Details
CROWN STREET 1. (East Side) 5195 Edward Pease Public Library and Darlington Art Gallery NZ 2914 NW 9/249
II
2. Exuberant civic building inscribed Edward Pease Free Library 1884. One storey and attic; 6 bays on East Street, canted angle and 21 bays on Crown Street front, of which the 6th bay from the right is an entrance. Strong red brick with plentiful terra-cotta dressings. High pitched roof of graduated Lakeland slates with big, decorative ridge stacks. Attic windows in gables of an elaborate Dutch renaissance style, at intervals; some straight and some serpentine open pediments. All windows have baroque treatment: scrolled side pieces and moulded projecting key blocks running up through segmental pediments with fan decoration. Brickwork panels below. Five splayed steps, with cast iron lame holders on side walls, to corner doorway under pediment holding coats of arms among scrolls. A few wrought iron area railings remain. Wood cupola with ogee lead dome on ridge above side entrance. Plaque on west wall refers to a stone with an iron hitching ring set below. This is where W.T. Stead, the celebrated campaigning journalist, used to tie his horse when he was editor of the "Northern Echo".
Listing NGR: NZ2905514642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110595
- 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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