Passmore Edwards Free Library is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. A C19 Library. 2 related planning applications.

Passmore Edwards Free Library

WRENN ID
south-lime-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1975
Type
Library
Source
Historic England listing

Description

PITFIELD STREET N1 1. . 5013 (East Side) ------------------ Passmore Edwards Free Library TQ 3382 35/474 II

  1. 1897-9 by H T Hare in modified Renaissance style. Red brick with terracotta dressings. 2 main storeys, basement and tall double attic storey. Left bay is a tower with pyramidal roof and round staircase turret corbelled out at 1st floor. Drum, bell-stage and cupola above, Wide window with column mullions in upper storey; small windows in baroque surrounds elsewhere, On ground floor round arched entrance with wrought iron gates, At right 8 windows on lower floors mullioned and transomed in eared architraves with frieze and cornice. Brick aprons below. Attic storey has 2 wide gables, each with a wide bow window, with column mullions and entablature, sunk into the wall; and a small window high above. Flanking these, roof descends to eaves level, with dormers.

Listing NGR: TQ3305182740

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