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Latitude: 53.4182 / 53°25'5"N
Longitude: -2.2323 / 2°13'56"W
OS Eastings: 384658
OS Northings: 391288
OS Grid: SJ846912
Mapcode National: GBR DXVX.HD
Mapcode Global: WHB9V.PB6X
Plus Code: 9C5VCQ99+73
Entry Name: Didsbury Public Library
Listing Date: 3 October 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254968
English Heritage Legacy ID: 458449
ID on this website: 101254968
Location: Didsbury, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M20
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Didsbury West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Didsbury St James and Emmanuel
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Public library Library building
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
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