NEWNES PUBLIC LIBRARY

NEWNES PUBLIC LIBRARY, DISRAELI ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331702
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NEWNES PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: NEWNES PUBLIC LIBRARY, DISRAELI ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331702
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NEWNES PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: NEWNES PUBLIC LIBRARY, DISRAELI ROAD

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

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:: NEWNES PUBLIC LIBRARY, DISRAELI ROAD

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 24035 75146

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DISRAELI ROAD TQ 27 NW (south side) 1207-/1/10021 Newnes Public Library II Public library, 1899 by Francis J Smith at the expense of Sir George Newnes. Red brick with extensive stone dressings. Roof not visible. Three bays, three storeys. Dwarf wall with four stone piers to front. Arched entrance within Ionic stone porch, bearing balcony inscribed in raised lettering 'NEWNES PUBLIC LIBRARY'. Central arched eight-light window with stone mullions and transoms; four-light window in right-hand bay. First floor has bowed six-light mullioned window in centre, between blocked Ionic pilasters, above solid balustrade carved with the borough arms and motto against an oak leaf background. Six-light mullioned windows on each side. Second floor has a bowed balustrade in front of central two-light windows set between three projecting Ionic pilasters. Four-light mullioned windows on each side. String courses at sill and transom levels, entablatures at first and second floor and attic levels. Brick parapet with stone finials above projecting strips between windows and on corners. Central frontispiece culminates in tall, segmental pediment, enclosing date cartouche. Obelisk finial above centre. Chimney stacks of banded brick and stone. Interior. Double entrance doors lead via vestibule lined with plaques to long corridor with vaulted domed plaster roof. Reading room at end with open timber truss roof of six bays with dormers. Linking corridor leads to 1977 lending library of no interest. Included as a very good example of a Norman Shaw-inspired library building in an eclectic Jacobean style, with an unusually lavish and intact interior. Now also houses the Wandsworth Museum.

Listing NGR: TQ2403575146

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Legacy System number:: 422726
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.