Carnegie Library
CARNEGIE LIBRARY, ORMSKIRK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384504
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Carnegie Library
- Statutory Address:
- CARNEGIE LIBRARY, ORMSKIRK ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16696/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384504
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Carnegie Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARNEGIE LIBRARY, ORMSKIRK ROAD
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:
- CARNEGIE LIBRARY, ORMSKIRK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 55975 04593
Details
WIGAN
SD50SE ORMSKIRK ROAD, Pemberton
24-1/5/133 (North side)
Carnegie Library
II
Public library. Dated 1907 on commemoration stone to right of
centre; altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with
buff terracotta dressings and slate roof. On end-of-island
site, with a plan in the form of a nave with north and south
aisles parallel to the streets on either side, and rectangular
wings attached to the rear corners. Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, a symmetrical east front of
1:3:1 bays, the centre pedimented and breaking forwards
slightly; with a chamfered plinth, terracotta facing to both
floors of the centre including panelled pilasters, an
egg-and-dart frieze, parapets to the outer bays, and a
pedimented gable to the centre with prominent coping and a
wooden cupola just behind, with a finial. The centre has
Tuscan columns distyle in antis at ground floor, framing a
segmental-headed doorway and large segmental-headed windows,
all these with shouldered and keyed architraves; a panel over
the doorway with a foliated cartouche and flanking panels with
raised lettering "CARNEGIE" "LIBRARY"; Ionic pilasters distyle
in antis at 1st floor framing a tall segmental-head 6-light
double-transomed window which breaks into the gable, flanked
by cross-windows; and an oculus in the gable with an
architrave elaborately enriched with festoons. The outer bays
(which appear to be stair-turrets) have small 2-light windows
at ground floor with open pediments, and oculi at 1st floor
with enriched surrounds. The 3-bay north and south "aisles"
have pilasters and wide segmental-headed windows; the "nave",
with terracotta pilasters and an egg-and-dart cornice, has
3-light mullioned windows.
The wings, 2 lower storeys and 3 windows, symmetrical, each
have a canted bay window at ground floor flanked by 3-light
windows, and a large segmental-headed 6-light window at 1st
floor under an open pediment, flanked by transomed 6-light
windows. Unoccupied at the time of the inspection. INTERIOR
not inspected. Forms a striking feature of the street, facing
down towards the town centre.
Listing NGR: SD5597504593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484938
- 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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