Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Tunstall library and public
baths
Area
Tunstall |
Street
The Boulevard |
Heritage No.
165 A B |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
15 March 1993 |
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Building:
Tunstall library and public
baths |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ85SE THE
BOULEVARD, Tunstall |
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Description:
Public Library and public baths, 1889. Brick
with stone and terracotta dressings and plain tiled roofs. |
Tunstall Public Library, formerly Victoria Institute,
and public baths, 1889
Public Library, formerly Victoria Institute, and
public baths, 1889. Brick with stone and terracotta dressings
and plain tiled roofs.
3-storeyed, main elevation of 9 bays (4-1-4),
with projecting central entrance porch with Jacobean detailing:
round arched doorway with frieze in flanking stone pilasters,
and coat of arms in shallow segmental pediment. Two large
mullioned and transomed windows above, and pedimented gable with
arms.
Outer bays of banded brick to ground floor, with
stone dressings - continuous sills and hood moulds.
Terracotta frieze over windows reading "Free
Library Public Baths. Art and Science Institute". Consoles carry
pilasters articulating the first storey, and a projecting
cornice beneath round arched arcade of windows in the attic
storey.
4 bays to Greengates Street similarly detailed,
and a massive hanging wrought-iron sign reading "Thomas Nash
Peake gave this AD 1901" and on the obverse. "Tunstall Free
Library. William Durose made this, AD 1901" in gothic script.
The Public Baths is a 2-storey brick building to
Greengates Street, linked to the library via its rear courtyard
range. A significant example of the provision of municipal
facilities in the late 19th Century.
Queen
Victoria Jubilee Building
above are the arms of Tunstall Town
on Tunstall arms
Queen
Victoria Jubilee Building, The Boulevard. 1889 and 1898 by
A. R. Wood. Large, red brick, indifferent.
Pevsner: The Buildings of
England
"Tunstall Free Library. William
Durose made this, AD 1901"
"Thomas Nash Peake gave this AD
1901"
The Public Baths is a 2-storey brick building to
Greengates Street, linked to the library via its rear courtyard
range. A significant example of the provision of municipal
facilities in the late 19th Century.
Tunstall Arms over the public
baths
date stone '1889' over the
public baths
photos:
Steve Birks March 2008
'libraries gave
us power'
  
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