Central Library is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1973. Library.
Central Library
- WRENN ID
- tall-footing-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Bromley and Biggin Hill MP: Peter Fortune (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1973
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Central Library, Tweedy Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 404 694
- Coordinates
- 51.40705, 0.01847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Central Library, located on Tweedy Road in Bromley, was built in 1878 and 1894. It is a long, narrow, asymmetrical building that stands two storeys high with attics. The exterior is made of red brick, featuring lighter red brick window surrounds and decorative yellow brick diaper work. The building has four gabled projections that do not contain windows, adorned with terracotta moulded Neo-Jacobean decorations.
On the first floor, there are three double sash windows and decorative terracotta panels that represent the Kent County symbol as well as the arts and sciences. The ground floor features thirteen cambered sash windows. The entrance is framed by a pedimented door surround. At the right side corner, there is a cupola topped with a weathervane and surrounded by balustrading. Above the entrance on this corner, a clock is positioned beneath a curved pediment supported by Tuscan columns.
Local climate
Central Library sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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