Listed Building record MDO15659 - Winton Public Library, Wimborne Road, Winton, Bournemouth

1907-8, H E Hawker and Mitchell. Edwardian classical public building, a slightly more elaborate version of Springbourne library (see Holdenhurst Road). Symmetrical red brick and stone front, entrance up curved steps, with coat-of-arms in segmental pediment, between Ionic pilasters carrying obelisks. Gables left and right with diamond patterning in stone apex, big lunette windows with stone mullions and transom - 3 lights over 5 lights. Gables flanked by flat brick buttresses banded in stone. Slate roof with white timber louvred cupola, battered sides, low leaded dome, ornamental finial and weathervane. Flanks have 3 tall windows carried up as dormers, flat-headed to south, semi-circular (with leaded roofs) to north. Moulded stone sills and timber cornices, leaded lights. Asymmetrical single-storey rear, with hipped roofs in echelon and tall chimney with vertical panels. Interior with barrel-roofed hall behind each gable, modernised.

Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

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