Listed Building: WESTBOURNE LIBRARY (101701)

1. ALUM CHINE ROAD 5186 (South West Side) Westbourne Library SZ 0791 9/77 II 2. Well-detailed Arts and Crafts public building, 1912 - spoilt by recent substitution of glazed entrance for central window (original entrance at side, with segmental hood on paired console brackets now blocked). Red brick with stone dressings, half-timbered gable at front with coat-of-arms in plaster. Dominant hipped roof of tile on white timber cornice, gripped at corners by small square towers of brick and stone. Similar towers separate bays with mullioned windows on long south flank. Central copper cupola with decorative weathercock, on tall leaded base. Good spoutheads. Neat grooved tooling of stonework. Listing NGR: SZ0700791354

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Nov 1 2006 4:40PM