Description

CAMDEN

TQ2585NW KIDDERPORE AVENUE
798-1/24/983 (North side)
16/01/96 The Skeel Library, King's College

GV II

Library and attached archway. 1903-4. By Robert Falconer
MacDonald. Red brick with stone and brick 1st floor and
dressings. Tiled hipped roof with tall brick chimney-stacks,
segmental pedimented dormer and console-buttressed cupola.
Edwardian Baroque style.
2 storeys and attic. 7 windows. Large central 2 storey canted
bay with brick buttresses at ground floor level forming
pediments to 1st floor stone attached Ionic columns. Ground
floor 18-pane sashes have segmental gauged brick heads. 1st
floor transom and mullion windows with small panes in enriched
surrounds. Stone modillion and dentil eaves cornice.
INTERIOR: lined with fumed oak fittings and has a gallery
added in 1911. Archway, leading through to Maynard Wing (qv)
with panels of herringbone brickwork and bands of stone.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the library was built to allow Westfield
College to be admitted as a teaching school of the University
of London.

Listing NGR: TQ2537485823

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086653

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)