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Latitude: 54.6858 / 54°41'8"N
Longitude: -1.211 / 1°12'39"W
OS Eastings: 450966
OS Northings: 532587
OS Grid: NZ509325
Mapcode National: GBR MGZ8.M2
Mapcode Global: WHD6F.CHL5
Plus Code: 9C6WMQPQ+8J
Entry Name: Cleveland College of Art and Design, Former Central Library and Rear Extension
Listing Date: 9 March 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1250256
English Heritage Legacy ID: 432356
ID on this website: 101250256
Location: Hartlepool, County Durham, TS24
County: Hartlepool
Electoral Ward/Division: Victoria
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hartlepool
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Hartlepool St Oswald
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Library building
NZ 5032
10/61
HARTLEPOOL,
CLARENCE ROAD (east side),
Cleveland College of Art and Design, Former Central Library and Rear Extension
(Formerly listed as Central Library and rear extension)
9.3.85
G.V. II
Public Library and former newsroom; 1894 on plaque in west gable; by J.W. Brown, Borough Engineer. Rear extension of 1914 by N.F. Dennis, Borough Engineer. Red brick with ornamental terracotta dressings and plain clay tiled roofs, each with 2 ventilation lanterns to ridge. 'L' plan with principal front of library facing Clarence Street (north); former newsroom faces Clarence Road (west). Northern Renaissance style. 2 storeys to library; balanced asymmetry. First-floor windows are separated by simple ½-lozenge pilaster strips continued through parapet to diminutive urn finials. Ornamented 3-centred arched heads to windows in gable end. Dentilled eaves cornice and first-floor sill string. Shaped gables to front and gable end, the latter having circular window. Single-storey 6-bay newsroom has doorway in left bay, with 4-panelled double doors and fanlight with glazing bars, under round-arched opening in pilaster-and-entablature surround having swan-neck pediment with urn finial. Bays defined in parapet by ½-lozenge pilaster strips with urn finials. Dentilled eaves cornice. 3-centred-arched windows. All windows are transomed or cross windows, in architraves.
Listing NGR: NZ5096632587
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