Former Library Premises

SE1039SE BINGLEY MAIN STREET (east side) Bingley

9/117 Former Library 18.6.81 premises

GV II

Former library. Mid C19. Hammer-dressed stone with polychrome ashlar dressings, blocked slate roof. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys and attic. Street front: prominent gable with separate porch to left containing pointed-arched cusped doorway with moulded surround and colonnettes, steeply-pitched coped gable with ornamental crested ridge. Library has 3 bays of 2-centred arched cusped windows with continuous hoodmould. Set in bays between at 1st-floor, 2 tall 2-centred arched 2-light mullioned-and-transomed windows with geometrical tracery and sill band. Set under: 2 quatrefoil panels with foliage carving and carved ribbons inscribed respectively "Public and "Library". Set above: clock in circular panel. Steeply-pitched coped gable with kneelers and stack to apex with 2 coupled octagonal ashlar flues. Rear has bay with hipped roof against main gable with ridge stack. Right-hand return of 5 bays with 2-centred arched cusped windows to ground floor and 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows above. Left-hand return: 3 bays of similar windows. Louvre to ridge and 3 gabled vents to each pitch of roof.

Prominent within the town.

Listing NGR: SE1075939114