Latitude: 54.8123 / 54°48'44"N
Longitude: -2.4408 / 2°26'26"W
OS Eastings: 371769
OS Northings: 546474
OS Grid: NY717464
Mapcode National: GBR CDDS.CP
Mapcode Global: WH91V.G9YM
Plus Code: 9C6VRH65+WM
Entry Name: Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank
Listing Date: 14 May 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1106388
English Heritage Legacy ID: 73116
Also known as: Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank
Alston Library
ID on this website: 101106388
Location: Alston, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA9
County: Westmorland and Furness
District: Eden
Civil Parish: Alston Moor
Built-Up Area: Alston
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Alston Moor
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Public library Gothic architecture City hall Seat of local government
NY 7146 ALSTON MOOR FRONT STREET, ALSTON (South side)
24/56 Town Hall, Library, & Trustee Savings Bank
G.V. II Municipal Offices. 1857 by A.B. Higham of Newcastle. Rough-faced snecked rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth; 1st floor string. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings, kneelers and corniced stone chimneys. Gothic style. Asymmetrical north front of 2 storeys with attic; 5 bays. Doorway with pointed head in ground floor of central tower which carried clock turret. Mullioned and transomed windows, some under hoodmoulds. Bank entrance at left. Library at right has large 4-light 1st floor window with cusped heads to lights under pointed containing arch; flanking niches. Symmetrical 3-bay west return of similar style with central gabled dormer; similar dormers on main front.
Listing NGR: NY7176946474
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