Everton Library is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1966. Library. 1 related planning application.
Everton Library
- WRENN ID
- spare-keystone-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1966
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Everton Library, Heyworth Street, L5 0RA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 356 925
- Coordinates
- 53.42574, -2.97059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Everton Library is a building constructed in 1896 by Thomas Shelmerdine. It is made of brick and stone with a tiled roof and features two storeys, three bays, and an octagonal corner turret. The design is in a free style.
The interior includes decorative iron railings on the balconies and a circular iron staircase located in the angle of the building. The plan is irregular, with a barrel-shaped roof made of glass panels over the main hall and shallow domed lights above the central area.
The exterior showcases three gables, stone dentilled cornices, and ornamented cornice bands. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, adorned with ornamental panels. At the entrance, there are four squat round columns in antis, topped with a carved stone panel that displays the date of construction. The corner facing Beacon Lane features a squat octagon with four columns, iron gates, ornamented stone panels, upper windows, and a concave-sided turret with a short spire. An ornamented plaque noting the library's opening is situated next to the turret.
Local climate
Everton Library sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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