Andrew Carnegie Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. Library.
Andrew Carnegie Public Library
- WRENN ID
- sharp-hinge-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Andrew Carnegie Public Library, Church Street, Clitheroe
- OS grid reference
- SD 744 419
- Coordinates
- 53.87302, -2.39059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Andrew Carnegie Public Library, designed by architects Briggs and Wolstenholme and dated 1903, is a Grade II listed building located on Church Street. This two-storey structure with attics is constructed of stone and features a slate roof. The Market Place elevation showcases a conical roof on an octagonal turret, flanked by two round windows and a clock beneath a gable. The first floor has three windows, including one with four lights flanked by two lights, while the ground floor has three tall windows and two basement windows with iron guards. A cornice separates the attic from the first floor.
On the Church Street elevation, there are four round-headed windows. The first floor features three windows with four lights, designed with mullions and transoms, along with a six-light window beneath a goblet-shaped niche, with additional niches between the windows. Above a three-light fanlight, there is a six-light window above a set-back door that is accessed by three steps. The Andrew Carnegie Public Library is part of a group of buildings that includes the Town Hall, the premises occupied by the Tourist Information Office, No 4, and Church Court, along with Nos 6 to 12 (even).
Local climate
Andrew Carnegie Public Library sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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