Athea Carnegie Library — Barrack Street

Detached four-bay single-storey Carnegie library, dated 1917, having ashlar limestone break-front porch to front (east). Hipped slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystack with oversailing red brick cornice, timber clad eaves and uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth. Tooled limestone date plaque to front elevation. Ashlar tooled limestone to porch continuing as quoins to south elevation. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills, raised render reveals and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having chamfered reveals to porch, tooled limestone step and timber battened door. Recent render ramp to approach with galvanised-steel railing. Rendered and recent concrete enclosing walls with rendered piers and wrought-iron gate. Located on slope to the southern end of Athea.