Summary : Public library. Dated 1901. By Percy Robinson. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof. Semicircular stone porch on corner with arcade of 3 large round arches on short bulbous columns, richly-carved spandrels and frieze over, one arch has wrought-iron entrance gates, the other 2 have stair running through with heavy balustrade and iron cresting to stone hand rail. Set back over this corner feature is short brick tower with stone quoins, battered stone clock stage in diagonally set square panel surmounted by squat louvred wood bellcote with Ionic pilasters and corner brackets and ogee-shaped lead-clad dome with finial. |