POPLAR PUBLIC LIBRARY

POPLAR PUBLIC LIBRARY, 45, GILLENDER STREET E14

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252435
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: POPLAR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: POPLAR PUBLIC LIBRARY, 45, GILLENDER STREET E14

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252435
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Oct-1992
List Entry Name:: POPLAR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: POPLAR PUBLIC LIBRARY, 45, GILLENDER STREET E14

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: POPLAR PUBLIC LIBRARY, 45, GILLENDER STREET E14

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 38186 81867

Details

In the entry for:- BRUNSWICK ROAD E14 TQ 3881 19/683 (East side) II Poplar Public Library

The address shall be amended to read:-

TQ 388119/683 45 GILLENDER STREET E14 (East side) Poplar Public Library

II

------------------------------------ BRUNSWICK ROAD E14 1. 4431 (East Side) Poplar Public Library TQ 3881 19/683 II 2. 1904-5 by Squire, Myers and Petch. Faced with white ashlar masonry, slate roof, balustraded parapet. 2 storeys, dormers, basements, 4 windows in central recessed part, flanking advanced wings of 1 bay. Giant engaged Ionic pillars between windows, bottom windows have round arched heads and keystones. Rusticated basement. Gabled hood to doorway, with rusticated, engaged pillars and inner architrave.

Listing NGR: TQ3818681867

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 205801
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.