Listed Building record MDO15355 - Westbourne Library, Alum Chine Road, Westbourne, Bournemouth

Well-detailed Arts and Crafts public building, built 1912. Red brick with stone dressings, half-timbered gable at front with coat-of-arms in plaster.Hipped roof of tile withsmall square towers at corners and separating bays. Central copper cupola with decorative weathercock.

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.

Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

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