2, Calverley Lane

This is a former district council offices and library, now partly occupied as a house and offices. The precise date of construction is uncertain, but it appears on an Ordnance Survey map of 1891. It is built of ashlar stone with a Welsh blue slate roof.

The building is two storeys with an attic and cellar, and it has a square plan with doorways on all four sides. The symmetrical three-bay facade facing the road features a pilastered doorcase with an entablature, cornice, and blocking course. Flanking the ground-floor windows are architraves and panelled aprons. The three first-floor windows have projecting sills. All windows retain their original eighteen-pane sashes. An eaves band and stone gutter run along the top. The roof is hipped, with two end stacks on the left and one stack on the right.

The rear elevation has a tall doorway with monolithic jambs and a margin-glazed overlight, flanked by windows with lintels and sills on both floors. There is also a large taking-in doorway with double doors to the first floor, centrally positioned. Square gutter brackets are present. The left-hand return has a central doorway with an overlight and a tall, narrow window above, with flanking ground-floor windows. Gutter brackets are also present. The right-hand return has one bay of windows for the house to the left of the doorway, with a wooden surround and a large, arch-headed shop window. Three sash windows are located above. A stone gutter runs along the top. A marble plaque attached to this elevation memorializes those who died in the South African War 1899-1902.

Inside, the stair-hall features a full-height open-string staircase with paired, slender, turned balusters and a wreathed and ramped handrail. The main sitting room has a doorway with an architrave, deep skirting, and a finely-moulded ceiling cornice with a central foliated boss. The cellar, lit by sash windows below ground level, retains its original fireplace with a stone shelf, a set-pot, and a long stone sink.