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Latitude: 51.5574 / 51°33'26"N
Longitude: -0.1929 / 0°11'34"W
OS Eastings: 525374
OS Northings: 185823
OS Grid: TQ253858
Mapcode National: GBR C5.J22
Mapcode Global: VHGQR.L3WY
Plus Code: 9C3XHR44+WR
Entry Name: The Skeel Library, Kings College
Listing Date: 16 January 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379252
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478620
ID on this website: 101379252
Location: West Hampstead, Camden, London, NW3
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Frognal and Fitzjohns
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Luke Hampstead
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Library building
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
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