St Marylebone Library and Health Centre
ST MARYLEBONE LIBRARY AND HEALTH CENTRE, MARYLEBONE ROAD NW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267671
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- St Marylebone Library and Health Centre
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARYLEBONE LIBRARY AND HEALTH CENTRE, MARYLEBONE ROAD NW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267671
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- St Marylebone Library and Health Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARYLEBONE LIBRARY AND HEALTH CENTRE, MARYLEBONE ROAD NW1
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:
- ST MARYLEBONE LIBRARY AND HEALTH CENTRE, MARYLEBONE ROAD NW1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 27707 81857
Details
TQ 2781 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1 43/4 St Marylebone Library 16.1.81. and Health Centre
G.V. II
Public library. 1938-39 by Sir Edwin Cooper. Portland stone; flat terraced roofs. Stripped cubic version of Cooper's earlier Graeco-Roman Town Hall design. Basement, 3 storeys and attic storey. 5 windows wide, the end bays very slightly advanced. Central tetrastyle portico in antis through ground and 1st floors slightly overlapping the end bays; plain shafted giant Corinthian columns and pairs of antae, deep entablature with bracketed cornice and balustraded parapet with urn capped dies. Plain windows. 2nd floor band course to end bays and band course to 2nd floor parapet. The attic storey is set back over end bays but advanced and slightly taller to centre, in line with portico, with central thermal window flanked by cartouches and festooned frieze below parapet band course. 12 bay returns have ground and 1st floor windows recessed between plain giant piers. 2 subsidiary doorways with heavy porches to Upper Montagu Street. Band courses returned from front to 2nd floor and parapets. Stone parapeted area and flight of steps to portico flanked by bronze lampstandards with bracketed lamps and surmounted by small statues of children. The rear part of east return is linked to Cooper's Town Hall by an arched ashlar bridge at 2nd floor level and with a stone arched gateway beneath, towards Salisbury Place.
Listing NGR: TQ2770781857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418105
- 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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