Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/11/2017

NX 91 SE (INSET),
8/73

ST BEES,
B5345 (West side),
New College Hall

(Formerly listed as Library to south-east of Priory Church chancel, previously listed as Part of Priory St Mary and Church of St Bega)

09.03.67.

GV
II
Library when surveyed. 1863 by Butterfield in Gothic style. Rough-dressed sandstone blocks with dressed quoins and bands on plinth; concave eaves course. Scalloped ridge to graduated slate roof; stone coping, kneelers, and apex cross to south ridge. Projecting stone chimney to centre on east side. Two storeys; single-storey bay window to north return. Entrance to left on west side has pointed head. Mullioned ground-floor windows to west side and south return each have two lights with trefoiled ogee heads; single first-floor window to each return has similar lights with quatrefoils to spandrels under pointed containing arch. First-floor west has four windows, three with inner trefoil heads.

Listing NGR: NX9691912114

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26620559

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (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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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)