Poplar Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Library.
Poplar Public Library
- WRENN ID
- stark-spindle-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Poplar Public Library, 45, Gillender Street E14
- OS grid reference
- TQ 381 818
- Coordinates
- 51.51884, -0.00973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poplar Public Library, located at 45 Gillender Street, was built in 1904-1905 by the architectural firm Squire, Myers and Petch. The library features a façade of white ashlar masonry and has a slate roof with a balustraded parapet. It is two storeys tall and includes dormers and basements. The central recessed section has four windows, flanked by advanced wings with one bay each. Giant engaged Ionic pillars are positioned between the windows, and the lower windows have round arched heads with keystones. The basement is rusticated, and the doorway is topped with a gabled hood, which is supported by rusticated, engaged pillars and an inner architrave.
Local climate
Poplar 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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