Toxteth Public Library
TOXTETH PUBLIC LIBRARY, WINDSOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359623
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Toxteth Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- TOXTETH PUBLIC LIBRARY, WINDSOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359623
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Toxteth Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOXTETH PUBLIC LIBRARY, WINDSOR 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:
- TOXTETH PUBLIC LIBRARY, WINDSOR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 35494 89123
Details
SJ 3589 SW WINDSOR STREET L8
59/1368 Toxteth Public Library 14.3.75. - II
Library. 1902. T. Shelmerdine. Red brick and stone dressings, slate roof. 1 storey with attic to central 3 bays, 5 bays in all. End bays project under gables. Flush stone banding and top cornice; stone coped gables. End bays have Venetian windows with rusticated colonnettes, pulivinated frieze and cornice forming hood over central light; sashes with glazing bars. Single tripartite windows flank entrance with cornice over. Band decorated with cartouches and foliage bears the inscription "TOXTETH LIBRARY", entablature over, with eared architraves and triple keystones; small-pared casements. Gable flanked by obelisk finials and scrolls; round-headed recesses with architraves and triple keystones at apexes contain cartouches and have open segmental pediments. Centre round- arched entrance with carved keystone, Ionic columns and pilasters, and deeply-projecting round-arched hood on foliated consoles. Central louvre has 4 Tuscan aedicules with open pediments and round-headed louvred openings, supporting lead cupola. 5-bay return to Upper Parliament Street has central 2 bays breaking forward under gables, with Venetian windows. Interior: Segmental vaulted entrance hall. Central bays have glazed dome over galleried hall. End bays have coffered segmental vaults, that to north has painting in lunette.Copper plaque in entrance records opening, richly decorated and set with enamel roundels.
Listing NGR: SJ3549489123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359751
- 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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