Carnegie Free Library
CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329207
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Carnegie Free Library
- Statutory Address:
- CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329207
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Carnegie Free Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY, MARKET PLACE
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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:
- CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 46506 41644
Details
PARISH OF ILKESTON MARKET PLACE SK 4641 NW 7/46 (South Side) Carnegie Free Library GV II
Library. 1904 by Hunter & Woodhouse of Belper. Edwardian 'Free Style'. Orange brick and ashlar with sandstone dressings. Plain tile and glazed roofs hidden behind parapets. Chamfered rusticated plinth. Two storeys over a basement visible to west owing to falling ground. North elevation has a pair of ashlar faced canted bays. These have to the main face a window in moulded stone architrave and above, a round-headed window with moulded stone architrave and elongated keyblock. Flanked by simplified Ionic half columns with pieces of entablature above. Canted sides have a window with moulded architrave to each floor, and a moulded cornice above. Five bays between, the windows all on the upper floor. Central projecting doorway with banded rusticated. Round-arched doorway with moulded surround and keyblock, flanked by thin Tuscan columns supporting a round-arched hood and enclosing the elongated keystone with superimposed swag of the doorway. Plain band linked to the sills of the canted bays. Above the entrance a stone panel inscribed in relief CARNEGIE/FREE LIBRARY. The first floor has five windows with moulded stone surrounds and between them carved relief Art Nouveau panels. Cornice and low parapet above. The west elevation has a tall bay to the left given the same treatment as the middle part of the canted bays. To the right, a projecting bay with a tripartite window to the basement and a row of five keyed oculi. Taller part to right again with two narrow ashlar canted bays and four stone bands flush with the wall surface, all above the rusticated basement. Plain window surrounds. Most windows have small pane metal casements. The interior has a staircase hall with stairs around an open well. Wrought iron stair rails with openwork iron newel posts of tapering profile. Segmental barrel vaulted plaster ceiling to first floor with plaster mouldings. First floor gallery supported on four Ionic columns.
Listing NGR: SK4650641644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352249
- 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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