The Skeel Library, Kings College is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1996. A C20 Library. 7 related planning applications.
The Skeel Library, Kings College
- WRENN ID
- lost-moulding-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1996
- Type
- Library
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Skeel Library, part of King's College, was built in 1903-4 by Robert Falconer MacDonald. It is a red brick building with stone and brick detailing to the first floor and dressings, featuring a tiled hipped roof, tall brick chimney stacks, a segmental pedimented dormer, and a console-buttressed cupola, all in an Edwardian Baroque style.
The building is two storeys high with an attic, and has seven windows. A prominent two-storey canted bay dominates the central section, with brick buttresses at ground floor level forming pediments to the first floor. The ground floor windows are 18-pane sashes set within segmental brick surrounds. The first-floor windows are transom and mullion windows with small panes in ornate surrounds. A stone cornice with modillion and dentil details runs along the eaves.
The interior has fumed oak fittings and a gallery added in 1911. An archway provides access to the Maynard Wing and features herringbone brickwork panels and bands of stone. The library was constructed to enable Westfield College to become a teaching school of the University of London.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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