Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1984. Municipal offices.

Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank

WRENN ID
tattered-span-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1984
Type
Municipal offices
Source
Historic England listing

Description

NY 7146 ALSTON MOOR FRONT STREET, ALSTON (South side)

24/56 Town Hall, Library, & Trustee Savings Bank

G.V. II Municipal Offices. 1857 by A.B. Higham of Newcastle. Rough-faced snecked rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth; 1st floor string. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings, kneelers and corniced stone chimneys. Gothic style. Asymmetrical north front of 2 storeys with attic; 5 bays. Doorway with pointed head in ground floor of central tower which carried clock turret. Mullioned and transomed windows, some under hoodmoulds. Bank entrance at left. Library at right has large 4-light 1st floor window with cusped heads to lights under pointed containing arch; flanking niches. Symmetrical 3-bay west return of similar style with central gabled dormer; similar dormers on main front.

Listing NGR: NY7176946474

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