Listed Building: MANSFIELD COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE (2.1.141)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 391716
Date assigned 21 March 1994
Date last amended

Description

Former Carnegie library, now community centre. Dated 1904, converted c1975. Brick with ashlar front and dressings, and hipped slate roof behind parapet. Baroque Revival style. Plinth, first-floor sill band, main cornice, plain coped parapet with stepped panelled central pedestal. 2 storeys; 1:3:1 bays. Recessed central bay flanked by single 12-pane sashes in the side bays. Beyond, set back narrow single bays, the right one with an 8-pane sash. Central loggia with 2 Doric columns in antis, linked by a railing. Glazing bar cross casement flanked by smaller 10-pane casements. Above, massive central pediment extending to the main cornice, with swagged keystone and containing a moulded semicircular recess. In the recess, a renewed inscribed panel with swags, flanked by enriched pilasters and allegorical figures. On either side, a square porch with Doric pilasters and broken pediment, the left one with a wooden-framed glazing bar casement with apron, the right one with a late C20 wrought-iron screen and door. INTERIOR has entrance hall with wooden paybox in Baroque Revival style, with round-headed window under broken pediment, flanked by single windows, and to right, a door. Cantilever concrete dogleg stair with wrought-iron balustrade. Single-storey reading room has 5-bay blind arcade and gabled glazed clerestorey roof. (EH)

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 53983 61267 (39m by 28m)
Map sheet SK56SW
District Mansfield
Civil Parish Mansfield, Mansfield

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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