New Hall Library is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Library. 1 related planning application.
New Hall Library
- WRENN ID
- burning-panel-lake
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Library
- Address
- New Hall Library, WC2A 3TL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 309 814
- Coordinates
- 51.51668, -0.11463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New Hall Library is a library built between 1843 and 1845 by Philip Hardwick and PC Hardwick, with JL Pearson. It was enlarged at the east end from 1871 to 1873 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The building is constructed of red brick with blue diaper patterns and stone dressings, topped with a lead roof, and is designed in the Tudor style. It has a rectangular plan consisting of eight bays and two storeys, positioned at a right angle to New Inn Hall, sharing the same entrance.
The library features three-light windows that are separated by stone-dressed buttresses, which rise through an embattled parapet and are topped with stone finials. The east and west elevations have gables and include two-storey canted bay windows with tracery. There are octagonal turrets at the north-west and south-east corners, with the south-east turret featuring a glazed lookout and a spire. The building is adorned with tall, decorative brick chimneys.
Inside, the library has stone-faced walls and a wooden open truss roof supported by pendentives. There are cast-iron galleries for shelves on three levels.
Local climate
New Hall Library sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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