Bishopsgate Institute And Library is a Grade II* listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1964. Institute and library. 24 related planning applications.
Bishopsgate Institute And Library
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-footing-plover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1964
- Type
- Institute and library
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
- 5002 BISHOPSGATE EC2 (East Side)
Bishopsgate Institute and Library (Formerly listed as Front half only of Bishopsgate Institute)
TQ 3381 NW 5/46 16.7.64.
II*
- Includes No 6 Brushfield Street. 1894, by Harrison Townsend. Consists of narrow entrance building with large hall behind flanked by corridor and secondary entrance modelled front of buff terra cotta. Wide, round-arched doorway with small columns of polished granite. Narrow window to either side and pair of lamps on decorative iron brackets. Large, mullioned and transomed windows above flanked by polygonal turrets with shaped tops. Steep slated roof with complicated eaves. Elevation to Brushfield Street irregular.
1 and 2 storeys. Red brick and terra cotta. Entrance and most window openings arched. Interior of building plain, with some glazed tiles etc to entrance lobby and corridor. Hall lit by pairs of arched windows at clerestorey level with ornamental brackets supporting beamed celling. Partially recessed dais with organ above. Walls plainly panelled with wainscott below. Rear part not of special interest. Fort Street frontage of similar style and materials to Brushfield Street elevations.
Listing NGR: TQ3340681729
Detailed Attributes
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