Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529116

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)