Former Library to Battersea Polytechnic Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Library. 4 related planning applications.

Former Library to Battersea Polytechnic Institute

WRENN ID
noble-gutter-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wandsworth
Constituency
Battersea MP: Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 1983
Type
Library
Address
Former Library to Battersea Polytechnic Institute, Battersea Park Road, Sw11, SW11 4LY
OS grid reference
TQ 283 767
Coordinates
51.47507, -0.15335
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former library of Battersea Polytechnic Institute was designed by E W Mountford in 1909 as an addition to the adjacent college building. This symmetrical single-storey building, styled in the manner of Sir Christopher Wren, is five bays wide and constructed of red brick with stone dressings. The bays are defined by a stone-banded Doric pilaster order, with the central bay being advanced and featuring a pair of stone Ionic pilasters. These support an entablature with an open segmental pediment that frames a large round-headed window with leaded lights, which is adorned with a console-keystone and cartouche above. Each of the recessed lateral bays contains a flat-headed sash window with a stone architrave, topped by a bull's-eye window framed in a garland. A high parapet with stone coping conceals a half-hipped tiled roof.

Local climate

Former Library to Battersea Polytechnic Institute 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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