Walthamstow Central Library is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1973. Library. 3 related planning applications.
Walthamstow Central Library
- WRENN ID
- haunted-hearth-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow MP: Ms Stella Creasy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1973
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Walthamstow Central Library, High Street E17, E17 7JN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 372 891
- Coordinates
- 51.58431, -0.02098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walthamstow Central Library is a library built between 1907 and 1909 by J W Dunford. It features red brick with ashlar dressings and has a tiled hipped roof. The building is two storeys tall and consists of four bays, with the central pair slightly set forward. These are flanked by columns in the Ionic order and topped with a segmental open pediment. The windows are round-headed in the center, while the outer windows on the upper storey are square-headed with round windows above. Decorative architraves and prominent keystones enhance the windows. The ground floor has sash windows, while the first floor features timber mullions and transoms with leaded lights. The ground floor is rusticated ashlar, and the entrance is located to the right of the center, featuring a round-headed, richly moulded and carved panelled door. Atop the roof is a timber and copper Doric ogeed cupola.
Local climate
Walthamstow Central Library sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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