Description

SJ 67 SE NORTHWICH C.P. WITTON STREET
(North Side)

5/49 No. 89 (Brunner Public
Library)

II

Public Library and Salt Museum, now Library and Exhibition Room, 1909,
A E Powles architect and W Wood of Hartford builder. A
subsidence-liftable structure of oak small framing with plaster panels
on brick plinth; slate roof. 2 storeys, symmetrical, with projecting
cross-wing to each side of central block of 3 windows. Ogee Tudor
arch contains shaped boarded double doors of oak; basket-arched oak
boarded door to each cross-wing. 2 mullioned and transomed leaded
casements to lower storey of central block and 3 to upper storey; 1
mullioned and transomed leaded casement to lower storey of each
cross-wing with canted oriel on shaped brackets above, under jettied
gable on shaped brackets, with carved bargeboards and finial. Shaped
red brick chimney on centre of ridge and at junction with left
cross-wing. Single storey rear wing.
Interior: Somewhat altered, framed throughout with stopped ovolo
beams, contains plaques of former library (1885 by M K Ellerton for
John Brunner and present library 1909 by A E Powles for the then Sir
John Brunner Bart. MP).

Listing NGR: SJ6608374049

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Northwich Library official website
• Wikidata Q26454778

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