Knutsford Library
KNUTSFORD LIBRARY, BROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388310
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Knutsford Library
- Statutory Address:
- KNUTSFORD LIBRARY, BROOK STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388310
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Knutsford Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNUTSFORD LIBRARY, BROOK 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:
- KNUTSFORD LIBRARY, BROOK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knutsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75457 78423
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 BROOK STREET 792-1/3/116 (West side) 12/02/99 Knutsford Library
II
Public Library. 1904, extended late C20, together with minor alterations. By Alfred Darbyshire, architect, of Manchester, with funding from the Carnegie Trust. Red brick, laid to English garden wall bond, with buff terracotta dresings and detailing. Welsh slate roof covering, that to the principal range with a shallow mid-span clerestory light to each pitch. PLAN: irregular L-plan complex, comprised of 2 main ranges, with entrance bay infilling the space between. FRONT ELEVATION: tall wide gable to left with wide oriel window carried on low, wide advanced pier incorporating 2 small single light windows. 4-light mullioned and transomed oriel rising from moulded terracotta base and with joggled flat lintel bearing the inscription 'PUBLIC FREE LIBRARY'. Wide terracotta bands at oriel base and window transom levels extend full width of gable, which carries decorative copings and elaborate apex panel with niche and ball finial. To the right, low flat roofed entrance range with wide 4-centred arched doorway below elaborately decorated doorhead incorporating corbelled flanking shafts, ball finials and a central panel with enrichments and the date 1904. Each side of the doorway are 3 single light windows set on a continuous cill mould, and with a lintel band made up of the linked joggled heads to the openings. Further right, and set back, a single bay with pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: principal range serves as adult library, formed of single space open to the roof. Bay roof structure comprised of double purlins supported by 2 arch-braced hammer beam roof trusses with diminutive king posts at collar level, and metal tie rods linking the hammer beams. Lower rear range forming children's library is ceiled, with wide cornice band and 2-light mullioned and transomed windows.
Listing NGR: SJ7545678426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476316
- 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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