Haggerston Branch Library
HAGGERSTON BRANCH LIBRARY, 234-236, KINGSLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235820
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Haggerston Branch Library
- Statutory Address:
- HAGGERSTON BRANCH LIBRARY, 234-236, KINGSLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235820
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Haggerston Branch Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAGGERSTON BRANCH LIBRARY, 234-236, KINGSLAND ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HAGGERSTON BRANCH LIBRARY, 234-236, KINGSLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hackney (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33495 83624
Details
The following building shall be added: KINGSLAND ROAD 1. 5013 (east side) Nos 234-236 (even) TQ 3383 30/700 (Haggerston Branch Library) II GV
Library. Built as a house c1880; adapted for use as a library in 1893 by Richard J Lovell; facade built and extended by 2 bays in 1896 by Maurice B Adams. Built of brick with facade of Portland stone; gabled Welsh slate roofs; stone and brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys and basement; symmetrical 5-bay range. Stone steps rise to fielded 6-panelled door; projecting porch has Corinthian pilasters and columns, and tablet set in broken pediment. Channelled rustication to basement and ground floor, with band of Greek key ornament broken by moulded ground-floor window architraves, which have enriched ornament, bracketed cills and ornamental cast-iron guards; plain friezes, beneath cornices brought forward from moulded storey bond, are inscribed SHOREDITCH/LIBRARY/HAGGERSTON/BRANCH. Alternate segmental and triangular pediments with console brackets, to similar first floor window architraves, which also have bead and reel ornament and have rosettes carved on cills. Corinthian frieze and cornice surmounted by balustraded parapet with vase finials, terminated by rusticated ashlar stacks with bracketed cornices. Glazed roof lights to staircase and reading room to rear. Interior: Panelled entrance hall, with half-glazed door leading to stair hall, which has rib-vaulted stair-light with foliate brackets and panelled frieze. Ground floor room to right has plaster cornice with console brackets. First floor rooms to front have enriched plaster cornices, and panelled door set in pedimented doorcase; painted decoration with arabesques to former reference library. History: This was the second library established by donations from John Passmore Edwards.
Listing NGR: TQ3349583624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426681
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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