Description

SJ 3889 PICTON ROAD (south side) L15

31/900 No 244 (Wavertree District Library) 14.3.75. (formerly listed with piers in front)

G.V. II

Library. 1902-3, Thomas Shelmerdine. Red brick, dressed stone, slate roof. One storey, 3 bays; end bays break forward under gables, central bay recessed over entrance, with shaped gable. Stone quoins and bands to gables modillioned cornice. End bay windows are tripartite with rusticated Ionic colonnettes and antae, entablatures with pulvinated cornices. Diocletian windows above with Gibbs surrounds and triple keys. Gables have flanking scrolls and obelisks. Central entrance with flanking 2-light windows. Rustictated tetrastyle Ionic colonnade with central open pediment. Entrance has architrave with triple key. Balustrade above, and recessed shaped gable with 2-light window with pediment. Windows have sashes and casements with glazing bars. Interior has 3 identical parallel rooms, with 3 iron queen-post roofs with dentils, and a clerestory with dentilled cornice. Plaque to commemorate opening to rear of central room, bronze with enamel.

Listing NGR: SJ3862389563

External Links

• Wavertree District Library official website
• Wikidata Q26330492

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)