Carnegie Library

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SJ39NW COLLEGE ROAD 778-1/3/28 (East side) Carnegie Library

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Library. Dated 1904 on foundation plaque to left of entrance. Accrington brick with sandstone dressings, green slate roofs with red ridge tiles, stone turret with copper cap. Edwardian Baroque style. PLAN: square plan comprised of a nave with side aisles under a 3-span roof with a front range under a hipped roof parallel to the road. EXTERIOR: single-storey plus turret, 3 bays, with a central entrance bay flanked by a gabled bay to the left and a balustraded bay to the right. The entrance, which projects slightly and slightly overlaps the flanking bays, is of sandstone ashlar above sill level, with pilasters, a plain frieze, modillioned cornice, balustraded parapet and central dome, and has a segmentally-bowed centre with set-in Ionic columns forming a porch to a recessed doorway, flanked by pairs of small 1-light windows. Both outer bays have large mullioned 3-light windows with glazing bars, and mutuled cornices; that to the left has a stepped and shaped gable with a segmental-pedimented aedicule at the apex, and that to the right has a balustraded parapet. Rising behind the entrance bay and offset left of centre is a 2-stage turret, the lower stage square and of brick, and the upper stage octagonal and of stone, with console supporters, a clock face to the front, and an arcaded top with ogival domed roof and finial. Five-bay side walls in similar but simpler style, with paired sashed windows. Three-bay rear with tall triple sashes. INTERIOR: nave and aisles almost a single space, open to the roof.

Listing NGR: SJ3154799419