The Lightfoot Institute is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1994. Institute. 2 related planning applications.
The Lightfoot Institute
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cobble-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1994
- Type
- Institute
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 June 2023 to amend the name of the architect
NZ2129NW 634-1/12/51
BISHOP AUCKLAND KINGSWAY (east side) No 24, The Lightfoot Institute
(Formerly listed as Library, KINGSWAY)
GV II
The building was founded as a Young Men’s Church Institute and named after Bishop Lightfoot. Designed by Robert Wilkinson Thompson (1850-96) in a plain simple Jacobean style, it opened in 1882. It is of dressed sandstone construction with tall pointed gables, pitched slate roofs and stone mullioned windows. The building was the town’s library until the 1990s and served as multipurposed community space before being redeveloped as apartments in 2021.
Two storeys, 1:2:1 bays. Wide six-panel door recessed in roll-moulded surround in third bay has three-pane overlight with stone mullions. Ballflower stops to stepped label mould over door and eroded carved arms of Bishop Lightfoot. Tall two-light stone cross mullion windows. Louvred slit vents in high gables of end bays. Roll-moulded gable coping rests on moulded kneelers. Corbelled eaves gutter to steeply pitched roof which has ridge cresting, tall corniced chimneys rising from right return eaves, and central octagonal ridge lantern with small lucarnes, pierced vent panels and lead spirelet.
Listing NGR: NZ2115229800
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