Library with stair

This is a 2-storey, 10-bay library built in the decorated style, featuring a stair to the north. The exterior is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with an ashlar plinth and dressings, and the roofs are made of graduated Lakeland slate with stone gable copings.

The main part of the library has square-headed, 3-light windows on the ground floor and paired first-floor windows with low, 2-centred heads, all equipped with transoms and tracery. The bays are defined by tall buttresses, one of which is offset and has gablet coping. The left and right gabled returns each have three buttresses, with a central lower buttress and 2-light ground-floor windows. The west side features a 5-light window above a buttress with a niche and statue, while the east side has a 4-light window. Trefoils adorn the gable peaks, and there are stone cross finials. The rear stair wing includes 2-centred-arched windows with dripmoulds.

Inside, the dogleg stair leading to the library has a stone balustrade decorated with pierced quatrefoils. The library boasts high-quality glass in the gable and stair windows, Gothic bookcases, and a panelled ceiling supported by arch-braced bracketed trusses with a carved wood frieze. In the southeast corner, a timber traceried screen separates one bay of shelves designated for the librarian's use. The ground floor of the library building includes the Lisbon Room, which retains Portuguese door furniture featuring the Papal insignia and a Portuguese silver sanctuary lamp.