Cleveland College Of Art And Design, Former Central Library And Rear Extension

NZ 5032 10/61

HARTLEPOOL, CLARENCE ROAD (east side), Cleveland College of Art and Design, Former Central Library and Rear Extension

(Formerly listed as Central Library and rear extension)

9.3.85

G.V. II

Public Library and former newsroom; 1894 on plaque in west gable; by J.W. Brown, Borough Engineer. Rear extension of 1914 by N.F. Dennis, Borough Engineer. Red brick with ornamental terracotta dressings and plain clay tiled roofs, each with 2 ventilation lanterns to ridge. 'L' plan with principal front of library facing Clarence Street (north); former newsroom faces Clarence Road (west). Northern Renaissance style. 2 storeys to library; balanced asymmetry. First-floor windows are separated by simple ½-lozenge pilaster strips continued through parapet to diminutive urn finials. Ornamented 3-centred arched heads to windows in gable end. Dentilled eaves cornice and first-floor sill string. Shaped gables to front and gable end, the latter having circular window. Single-storey 6-bay newsroom has doorway in left bay, with 4-panelled double doors and fanlight with glazing bars, under round-arched opening in pilaster-and-entablature surround having swan-neck pediment with urn finial. Bays defined in parapet by ½-lozenge pilaster strips with urn finials. Dentilled eaves cornice. 3-centred-arched windows. All windows are transomed or cross windows, in architraves.

Listing NGR: NZ5096632587