The Skeel Library, Kings College

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.