Sandyford Carnegie Free Library — Enniskerry Road

Façade of detached three- or five-bay single-storey library, designed 1907; dated 1907; opened 1907, on a T-shaped plan centred on three-bay single-storey lower breakfront. Burnt, 1982. Derelict, 1984. "Restored", 1997, to accommodate alternative use. Renovated, 2011. Replacement hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan extending into hipped slate roof (breakfront) with ridge tiles, paired rendered "wallhead" central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cut-granite capping supporting ribbed terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on paired cut-granite dentil consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered chamfered plinth with margined rock faced cut-granite piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite surround framing replacement glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, cut-granite monolithic mullions, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior remodelled, 2011. Set back from line of road in relandscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting replacement mild steel gate.