Carnegie Public Library and adjacent gates

The building is a Carnegie public library, constructed in 1906 by architects Gorman and Ross for Long Eaton Urban District Council. It is built in an Art Nouveau style. The library is red brick with ashlar dressings, a plinth, and a recessed frieze of small blue glazed tiles below the eaves. It has a Westmorland slate roof with overhanging eaves. The structure is single-storied and three bays wide, with an advanced central bay featuring a deeply coved arch, a lintel just above eaves level, and a semi-circular headed pediment. Two flights of steps lead to a central platform with a curved parapet. The archway originally held a large grid-like glazed screen with bevelled glass, now housing replacement doors. The pediment has dentillations and a mosaiced tympanum depicting the figure of Learning against a golden sunburst. The lintel is inscribed 'Free Library' in Art Nouveau script. Tall, thin windows with gold mosaic panels (inscribed 'Pax' to the south and 'Lux' to the north) are set within raised brick panels, flanked by stone pilaster strips with scrolled tops. Canted bay windows with tapering stone work and Egyptian-style stone pilasters are located to either side of the central bay. These windows have narrow side lights and a shallow band of grid glazing. A similar, but not identical, window is present on the north elevation. A large, unhistoric addition from the 1960s exists at the north-west corner. The interior retains the original glazed grid-like entrance screen and fine Art Nouveau ironwork to the roof of the rear section, along with a contemporary stained glass window by Stoddart of Nottingham. Approximately 7 metres to the east of the main entrance stand a pair of free-standing iron gates, remnants of the original Art Nouveau railings that once surrounded the library. These gates have a decorative central panel and a band of pierced circles halfway up.