Wavertree District Library is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Library.
Wavertree District Library
- WRENN ID
- empty-vestry-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Library
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 3889 PICTON ROAD (south side) L15
31/900 No 244 (Wavertree District Library) 14.3.75. (formerly listed with piers in front)
G.V. II
Library. 1902-3, Thomas Shelmerdine. Red brick, dressed stone, slate roof. One storey, 3 bays; end bays break forward under gables, central bay recessed over entrance, with shaped gable. Stone quoins and bands to gables modillioned cornice. End bay windows are tripartite with rusticated Ionic colonnettes and antae, entablatures with pulvinated cornices. Diocletian windows above with Gibbs surrounds and triple keys. Gables have flanking scrolls and obelisks. Central entrance with flanking 2-light windows. Rustictated tetrastyle Ionic colonnade with central open pediment. Entrance has architrave with triple key. Balustrade above, and recessed shaped gable with 2-light window with pediment. Windows have sashes and casements with glazing bars. Interior has 3 identical parallel rooms, with 3 iron queen-post roofs with dentils, and a clerestory with dentilled cornice. Plaque to commemorate opening to rear of central room, bronze with enamel.
Listing NGR: SJ3862389563
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