Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
Detached single-bay single-storey Carnegie Free Library, opened 1910, retaining original aspect with two-bay single-storey side elevations, and single-bay single-storey recessed lower entrance bay to south. Hipped slate roof (continuing over entrance bay behind parapet) with clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, post-1999, on overhanging timber eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with red brick quoins to corner to entrance bay having moulded cut-limestone cornice over, and blocking course to parapet. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to front (east) elevation) with cut-stone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds. 6/6 timber sash windows with 4/4 timber sash windows to tripartite opening, and 4/2 timber sash windows to entrance bay. Square-headed door opening with inscribed cut-limestone plaque over having advanced flanking sections, and timber panelled double doors. Set back from line of road in own grounds with sections of wrought iron railings to front on unpainted roughcast plinth, and wrought iron gate.
This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.