Former Gilstrap Library

The Former Gilstrap Library is a disused public library located in Newark on Trent, built in 1882 by William Henman of Henman & Beddoes for William Gilstrap, a local maltster and mayor of Newark in 1888. A rear addition was made in 1933, designed to match the original style. The building features rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof, topped with an octagonal wooden lantern and a leaded ogee dome, all in the Jacobean Revival style.

Architectural details include a chamfered plinth, a sill band, moulded eaves, shouldered coped gables with ornate finials, and a single gable stack. The windows are chamfered, mullioned, and transomed throughout. The structure is one storey plus attics and a basement. The east front has three bays with triple gables and a recessed central bay that contains a single-storey crenellated porch, which is topped with a crest and finial. The pointed doorway features shafts and a lintel inscribed "Gilstrap Library," flanked by single three-light windows. Above, there is a large four-light window with a tympanum. To the left, there is a crenellated square bay window with five lights, and to the right, a large six-light window with a small round window above it, featuring trefoil tracery.

The north front also has three bays, with a central gabled square bay window of six lights, flanked by two-storey splayed bay windows with hipped roofs. The west front includes a single gabled bay with a six-light window and a central addition from 1933, along with a single-storey range of six two-light windows topped with a parapet. The set-back south bay has two windows.