Brunner Public Library

Brunner Public Library, located at No. 89 Witton Street, is a public library and salt museum built in 1909, designed by architect A E Powles and constructed by W Wood of Hartford. The building features a subsidence-liftable structure made of oak small framing with plaster panels set on a brick plinth, topped with a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical design with projecting cross-wings on either side of a central block that has three windows.

The central entrance is marked by an ogee Tudor arch that contains shaped boarded double doors made of oak. Each cross-wing has a basket-arched oak boarded door. The lower storey of the central block has two mullioned and transomed leaded casements, while the upper storey has three. Each cross-wing features one mullioned and transomed leaded casement on the lower storey, with a canted oriel window above, supported by shaped brackets under a jettied gable, which also has carved bargeboards and a finial. A shaped red brick chimney is located at the centre of the ridge and at the junction with the left cross-wing. There is a single storey rear wing.

Inside, the library has been somewhat altered but retains framing throughout with stopped ovolo beams. It contains plaques from the former library established in 1885 by M K Ellerton for John Brunner, as well as the current library established in 1909 by A E Powles for the then Sir John Brunner Bart. MP.