Listed Building: THE PUBLIC LIBRARY (WALSINGHAM HOUSE) (1224100)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1793, 5, 16
Date assigned 07 October 1986
Date last amended

Description

MINSTER CHURCH STREET TR 3064-3164 (North Side) 5/16 No. 15, The Public Library (Walsingham House) GV II Shop and house, now library and house. Mid C19. Red brick front with yellow stock return elevations. Plain tiled roof. Unarchaeological Gothic Revival style. Three storeys, gable end to street. Ground floor shop front with red and purple glazed tiles, 2 plate glass sashes and plate glass door to right. Canopy with balcony to first floor, supported on cast iron piers with valancing. Large meat hooks suspended from canopy (originally a pork butcher's shop). Light cast iron balcony. First and second floors with pilaster quoin strips, plat band carried as capitals over pilasters, supporting quadruple rebated arch in kneelered gable enclos- ing arched plate glass window with small balcony on second floor, and larger arched window with pierced quatrefoil head on first floor. The right return with segmental sashes, plinth, plat bands and cornices and gabled dormers. Included for group value. Listing NGR: TR3108164341

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3108 6433 (point)
Map sheet TR36SW
Civil Parish MINSTER, THANET, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 9:41AM