Survey Data
Reg No
21400232
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Library/archive
In Use As
Community centre
Date
1930 - 1935
Coordinates
99410, 133928
Date Recorded
16/11/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay two-storey former Carnegie Free Library, built 1931, with four-bay two-storey central block and single-bay two-storey end bays. Four-bay two-storey side elevations with blind openings. Original building was burnt in 1921. Now in use as youth centre. Parapet wall covered with mineral felt. Pitched roof to plant room. Painted rendered walls with banded rustication, overhanging modillion cornice, render paterae above first floor windows and render apron panels at ground floor. Painted concrete sills to round-headed ground floor openings with timber three-over-three pane sliding sash windows and fanlights. Moulded sill course to first floor with timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows. Arched doorway having timber double-leaf panelled door with fanlight.