Didsbury Public Library Manchester, England
Listed Building Data
Didsbury Public Library has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1254968
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 3 October 1974
- Name
- DIDSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY
- Location
- DIDSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY, WILMSLOW ROAD
- District
- Manchester
- Grid Reference
- SJ 84658 91288
- Easting
- 384658.0000
- Northing
- 391288.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/8/672 (West side) 03/10/74 Didsbury Public Library
GV II
Public library. 1915, by Henry Price (City Architect). Red brick with dressings of Portland stone, slate roofs. Triangular plan with 2 wings at an acute angle hinged on an octagonal drum, the angle between the wings filled by a hall. Eclectic style with Gothic features. High single storey, dominated by the drum. This rises to a clerestory and has coupled corner pilasters, 3-light mullioned windows with cusped tracery and hoodmoulds, an emphatic sill-band carried round, a deep stone parapet with an upstand in each side, and an octahedral roof surmounted by a finial with weathervane. The front (to the north-east) is enclosed (inter alia) by a single-storey 3-sided porch in the form of a buttressed arcade of 2-centred arches, with an embattled parapet and pyramidal roof, and the parapet carries round angled side-lobbies on both sides. The wings have mullioned and double-transomed windows rising into gablets above the parapet; and hipped roofs.
Listing NGR: SJ8465891288
