Fulham Library Including Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Hammersmith and Fulham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1985. Library. 6 related planning applications.
Fulham Library Including Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- patient-brass-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1985
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Fulham Library Including Area Railings, 598, Fulham Road Sw6, SW6 5NX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 249 768
- Coordinates
- 51.47712, -0.20258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fulham Library, built in 1908 by Henry T Hare, is a library constructed of red brick with Portland stone dressings and features a renewed slate roof. The building has one storey plus a roof storey and a basement, measuring five windows wide. The central and outer bays are adorned with Roman Ionic three-quarter columns and pediments, with triangular pediments on the outer bays and a segmental pediment on the inner bay, all featuring cartouches in the tympana. The entrances are located in the outer bays and retain their original doors. The windows are mullioned and transomed, framed with architraves and fitted with leaded square panes. The basement windows have segmental heads with prominent key stones. A modillion eaves cornice runs along the top of the building, which has a hipped roof. There are three four-light pedimented dormers and a central timber cupola topped with a dome and finial. The area is enclosed by cast iron railings that include decorative wreaths and urns.
Local climate
Fulham Library Including Area Railings sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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