Brunner Public Library

SJ 67 SE NORTHWICH C.P. WITTON STREET (North Side)

5/49 No. 89 (Brunner Public Library)

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Public Library and Salt Museum, now Library and Exhibition Room, 1909, A E Powles architect and W Wood of Hartford builder. A subsidence-liftable structure of oak small framing with plaster panels on brick plinth; slate roof. 2 storeys, symmetrical, with projecting cross-wing to each side of central block of 3 windows. Ogee Tudor arch contains shaped boarded double doors of oak; basket-arched oak boarded door to each cross-wing. 2 mullioned and transomed leaded casements to lower storey of central block and 3 to upper storey; 1 mullioned and transomed leaded casement to lower storey of each cross-wing with canted oriel on shaped brackets above, under jettied gable on shaped brackets, with carved bargeboards and finial. Shaped red brick chimney on centre of ridge and at junction with left cross-wing. Single storey rear wing. Interior: Somewhat altered, framed throughout with stopped ovolo beams, contains plaques of former library (1885 by M K Ellerton for John Brunner and present library 1909 by A E Powles for the then Sir John Brunner Bart. MP).

Listing NGR: SJ6608374049