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End-of-terrace three-storey former house-over-shop, built c.1830, with attic, having two-bay upper floors and four-bay ground floor, and with two-storey extension to rear. Now in use as library and civic centre. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack and replacement rainwater goods. Red brick Flemish bond walls with tooled and chamfered sandstone quoins, smooth render to gable and to extension walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent surrounds, and flat arches, with timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane to first floor, with painted sills. Square-headed timber windows to ground floor having bipartite lights with segmental heads, and painted stone sills with iron window guards. Variety of timber sash windows to other elevations. Square-headed door opening to shopfront with red brick flat arch and rendered patent surround, tooled stone plinth blocks, double-leaf timber panelled door with geometric tracery glazed panels, and overlight. Round-arched doorway to upper floors, having fluted columns and spoked fanlight.
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