Phibsboro Library — North Circular Road

Detached seven-bay single-storey public library, dated 1934, with lean-to return to rear (north) elevation. Hipped tiled roof with roof-light to rear span and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English Garden Wall bond, limestone plinth course, limestone entablature and overhanging cornice supporting profiled cast-iron gutter. Cement rendered walls to return. Square-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs, red brick reveals, terracotta sills and recessed herringbone brick panels and multiple-pane cast-iron windows with fixed-pane pivots to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with cement rendered reveals, limestone sills and multiple-pane cast-iron windows to return. Round-headed porch opening with dressed stone voussoirs and keystone framed by brick piers supporting limestone entablature with name plaque, concrete dentillated cornice with date plaque over. Panelled timber double-leaf door with margin lights and fanlight. Granite platform and steps. Early-twentieth-century interior joinery to shelving and internal doors, glazed roof-lights with stained-glass margins. Set in landscaped grounds on site of infilled Broadstone Branch of the Royal Canal. Mild steel railings on concrete plinth.