Benson Building, Abutting Wesley'S Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Reading room.

Benson Building, Abutting Wesley'S Chapel

WRENN ID: calm-beam-gorse
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Islington
Country: England
Type: Reading room
Source: Historic England listing

Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3282SE 635-1/76/258 29/09/72

CITY ROAD (East side) Benson Building, abutting Wesley's Chapel

GV II

Reading room, parlour, library etc. 1880, presumably by Charles Bell. The building abuts the single-storey wing north of the Chapel, and presents only a range of windows to the forecourt. Yellow brick with stucco dressings, roof obscured by parapet. Three storeys, five-window range. Ground-floor windows round-arched with archivolts and springing band; sill band to first and second-floor windows which are segmental-arched, also with archivolts and springing band. Cornice and blocking course. (Information from Philip Temple, Survey of London).

Listing NGR: TQ3282182286

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