British Legion Club And Branch Library is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1983. Club, library.
British Legion Club And Branch Library
- WRENN ID
- tall-lime-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1983
- Type
- Club, library
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 1634 NW 9/113 BLOCKLEY BELL LANE (South+East side)
British Legion Club and Branch Library
GV II
Founded 1713 by Rev Erasmus Saunders, enlarged (and virtually rebuilt) by Lord Northwick 1826 (see inscription). Altered. 2 storeys with hipped roof, coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Built as a village school. North front: 3 bays, outer slightly angled back and have band over ground floor, centre breaks forward slightly and has open pediment. Latter has lunette window with flat bracketted label, panel below with inscription in latin. Three doorways below, centre double. Unsymmetrical window on 1st floor to right looks contemporary (1826). To left: a window on 1st floor and double doors below. To right: door on 1st floor, half-blocked window below.
Return to East: 2 wide bays of tripartite windows, casements; central doorway with open pedimented stone porch (entrance to Library). In 1867 partly taken over to house the village fire engine (until 1946).
Listing NGR: SP1640934945
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