Worksop Central Library and Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Bassetlaw local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1990. Library and museum. 13 related planning applications.
Worksop Central Library and Museum
- WRENN ID
- deep-basalt-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bassetlaw
- Constituency
- Bassetlaw MP: Jo White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1990
- Type
- Library and museum
- Address
- Worksop Central Library and Museum, Memorial Avenue, S80 2BP
- OS grid reference
- SK 588 789
- Coordinates
- 53.30449, -1.11899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Worksop Central Library and Museum is a library and museum built in 1938 by Haslam, Son Holley. The building features ashlar and handmade brick with flat roofs and a shallow dome that includes pavement lights. It has a cross plan with apsidal ends, lower flanking wings, and a projecting wing on each side, all at a single storey and comprising 15 bays. The windows are all metal framed with horizontal ventilators.
The main south front showcases a central distyle Tuscan portico with a moulded architrave and a frieze inscribed "Central Library and Museum." Above the portico is a parapet that displays the Town Arms and a flagpole. This front is flanked by two windows, followed by five additional windows. Each end of the central block has six windows. Above this, a domed rotunda features decorative bands and ashlar coping, topped with a bronze finial.
The symmetrical rear elevation includes a central wing with seven windows, flanked by four windows and single metal doors with overlights. Inside, the library retains original cork wall panelling and bookcases in the former reading room, which has a glazed false ceiling.
The entrance steps are flanked by square stone piers of four stages with vase capitals. The pathway features two similar piers with round caps. A curved brick dwarf boundary wall with ashlar coping is adorned with 28 dwarf piers linked by two metal bands, along with a pair of matching gatepiers that support ornamental metal gates.
Local climate
Worksop Central Library and Museum sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
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