Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1982. Library. 3 related planning applications.

Public Library

WRENN ID
night-lancet-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newham
Constituency
East Ham MP: Sir Stephen Timms (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1982
Type
Library
Address
Public Library, High Street South E6, E6 6EN
OS grid reference
TQ 426 834
Coordinates
51.53234, 0.05541
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Carnegie Public Library, opened in March 1908, was designed by A H Campbell and serves as an extension to East Ham Town Hall. The building is constructed of red brick with yellow terracotta dressings and features Jacobean motifs. It is two storeys high, topped by a balustraded parapet and a green slated garret storey. The front of the library includes a central open pedimented porch supported by rusticated Ionic columns, with a gabled oriel above. There are two bays of mullioned and transomed windows on each side. At the south end, there is a battered tower with octagonal buttresses, a cupola, and an octagonal lantern. The design also includes an egg and dart cornice, cill bandcourses, and thin chamfered buttresses.

Local climate

Public 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 98% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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