Westbourne Library is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Public building.
Westbourne Library
- WRENN ID
- distant-portal-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Public building
- Address
- Westbourne Library, Alum Chine Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 070 913
- Coordinates
- 50.72166, -1.90202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westbourne Library is a well-detailed Arts and Crafts public building constructed in 1912. The building has been somewhat diminished by the recent replacement of the central window with a glazed entrance, while the original entrance at the side, featuring a segmental hood on paired console brackets, is now blocked. The library is built from red brick with stone dressings and has a half-timbered gable at the front that displays a coat-of-arms in plaster. It features a dominant hipped roof covered in tiles, with a white timber cornice, and is accentuated at the corners by small square towers made of brick and stone. Similar towers also separate the bays that contain mullioned windows along the long south flank. At the center, there is a copper cupola topped with a decorative weathercock, resting on a tall leaded base. The building also showcases good spoutheads and neat grooved tooling of the stonework.
Local climate
Westbourne Library receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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