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Appendix lX
Policy CBE11: List of Buildings of Local Importance
   
  The following sites shown on the Proposals Map, are subject to policy CBE11.
   
  The former Central Library, Broadway (recently Café-en-Seine and Break for the Border)
  Red brick 1905 library building with ashlar ground floor and mansard slate roof. Ground floor windows have moulded architraves with keystones.
  The former Technical College, Broadway (currently The College Arms)
  Dark red brick building constructed in 1903, with large windows to first floor and dormers above.
  Market Chambers/Long Causeway Chambers (ground floor currently DX Communications; Dolland and Aitchison; Abbey National; Travel Choice; The Orange Shop; Max Spielmann; The Woolwich)
  Three-storey Victorian building originally occupied by Peterborough's first department store. Richly decorated building with stone dressings and slate roof.
  The former GNR railway warehouses, off Bourges Boulevard (currently Pets at Home; NHS Walk-in Centre; Furniture Land)
  Two-storey mid C19 buildings constructed with yellow stock brick and slate roofs with cast iron windows and arched heads. Many original timber trusses and roof beams survive, supported by elegant cast iron columns.
  The Westgate Arcade
  Indoor shopping arcade built in the mid 1930s to provide a vital link between Cumbergate and Westgate. It has a marble floor with original small timber fronted shop units with recessed doorways and a modern glazed central roof.
  Peterborough Town Hall
  Built between 1929 and 1933 in a neo-Georgian style in brick with stone dressings. It is notable for its cupola and grand entrance portico of four tall giant Corinthian columns with decorated pediment.
  Kings School
  Built in 1885 following relocation from the Cathedral Precincts, it is built of dark red brick with stone dressings and slate roof.
  10 Burghley Road
  Late C19 building in unusual mock Tudor style. Built of red brick with jetted first floor and timber studding to first floor with arch bracing and rendered panels. It has highly decorative carved bargeboards and octagonal chimneys in gauged brickwork with twists.
  The former Courthouse, Laxton Square (recently 5th Avenue; Central Park)
  Built in 1873 as the County Court for the Magistrate of the Liberty or Soke in 1873 and remained in use until 1986. Yellow and red brick with Italian influences, including decorative corbelling, tall brick chimneys and round arched widows.
  Manor House, 57 Lincoln Road (currently Nene Housing Society Ltd)
  Former headquarters of the Peterborough Building Society. Two-storey building with brick with stone dressings and mansard roof. Symmetrical frontage with double stone bay and mullion windows around a central door. Entrance piers with decorate lights and ornate gates.
  64 Thorpe Road
  Built in 1836 and largely unaltered. It has a shallow pitched Welsh slate roof, impressive brick chimneys, round arched first floor windows, ground floor bay windows and door-case.
  Memorial Hospital, Midland Road (currently part of Peterborough District Hospital)
  Opened in 1928 as a memorial to the dead of the First World War. The Children's ward to the south included an open ground and first floor sun parlour. Classical portico entrance.
  7 Westgate (currently D'Arcy jewellers)
  Rare surviving late Victorian timber shop front. Timber mullions, pilasters and stallrisers.
  Main Range Whitworths Mill, East Station Road
  Brick warehouse with a central vaulted tunnel which provided a dock within the building for grain barges. Impressive north elevation rising four storeys above the River Nene with expressed arches to windows. Each floor is supported by six cast iron columns and roofs by nine King-post roof trusses.
  The Gables, Thorpe Road
  Late C19 building in the Elizabethan style. Built of brick with stone detailing (door and window surrounds, porch). The building displays high standards of design, materials and workmanship.
 
 
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