CARNEGIE LIBRARY

CARNEGIE LIBRARY, ORMSKIRK ROAD

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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:: CARNEGIE LIBRARY, ORMSKIRK ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 484938
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.