Mansfield Community Arts Centre

Mansfield Community Arts Centre is a former Carnegie library that dates back to 1904 and was converted around 1975. The building is constructed of brick with an ashlar front and dressings, topped by a hipped slate roof behind a parapet. It is designed in the Baroque Revival style and features a plinth, a first-floor sill band, a main cornice, and a plain coped parapet with a stepped panelled central pedestal. The structure has two storeys and is arranged in a 1:3:1 bay configuration.

The central bay is recessed and flanked by single 12-pane sash windows in the side bays. There are also narrow single bays set back beyond these, with the right one containing an 8-pane sash window. A central loggia is supported by two Doric columns in antis and is linked by a railing. The loggia features a glazing bar cross casement flanked by smaller 10-pane casements. Above this, a massive central pediment extends to the main cornice, adorned with a swagged keystone and a moulded semicircular recess. This recess contains a renewed inscribed panel with swags, flanked by enriched pilasters and allegorical figures.

On either side of the loggia, there are square porches with Doric pilasters and broken pediments. The left porch has a wooden-framed glazing bar casement with an apron, while the right porch features a late 20th-century wrought-iron screen and door.

Inside, the entrance hall includes a wooden paybox in Baroque Revival style, with a round-headed window under a broken pediment, flanked by single windows and a door to the right. A cantilever concrete dogleg stair with a wrought-iron balustrade leads to the upper levels. The single-storey reading room has a 5-bay blind arcade and a gabled glazed clerestorey roof.