Erith Library
ERITH LIBRARY, WALNUT TREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255449
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Erith Library
- Statutory Address:
- ERITH LIBRARY, WALNUT TREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255449
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Erith Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- ERITH LIBRARY, WALNUT TREE 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:
- ERITH LIBRARY, WALNUT TREE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Bexley (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 51322 78072
Details
TQ 5178 WALNUTTREE ROAD Erith
(east side)
959-/7/10004 Erith Library
II
Public library, 1906 by W Egerton. Red brick with extensive stone enrichment. Slate hipped roof with cupola. Two storeys, central frontispiece with segmental arched door canopy carried on Doric columns; aediculed niche over. Flanked on either side by four-window ranges, each pair of rectangular and keystoned windows to ground floor with a round first-floor window over. Southern return with pedimented doorway and long (four-bay) arcaded flank wall. Cupola in the form of a square temple, surmounted by a bronze sailing ship weathervane.
Interior. Entrance porch with two war memorial plaques. Small reading rooms on front range; main room is single-storey aisled space to rear, with marble columns at its entrance, wooden trussed roof with skylights. Side aisles divided from central bay by triple arcade, lit by lunettes.
Built with monies from the Andrew Carnegie Fund, this library is a good example of the 'Free Renaissance' style of library design.
Listing NGR: TQ5132278072
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459717
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10982
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10983
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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