Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Library. 1 related planning application.
Public Library
- WRENN ID
- iron-eave-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Public Library, Bellbrook, Penkridge, ST19 5DL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 925 141
- Coordinates
- 52.72481, -2.11165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former police station, now serving as a public library, constructed in 1858. It features orange brick with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof with a brick ridge stack. The main structure consists of one storey and an attic, with a low set-back wing on the right and a low blind projecting wing on the left.
The main range has a dentilled eaves cornice and is divided into three bays, each with glazing bar sashes that have horns, shaped architraves, bracketed sills, and fluted keys. There is a central attic window with a fluted key and a semi-circular arch that springs from an impost-band. The corners of the building are accentuated by paired pilasters, and there are single pilasters at the corners of the central pedimented porch. The entrance features a central partly glazed two-leaf door with a cornice hood.
The right-hand wing is also one storey, featuring a dentilled eaves cornice beneath a hipped roof. It has two bays, with a two-light flat face mullioned window on the left that has a bracket sill and contains plate glass sashes. To the right, there is a six-panelled door with an overlight, shaped surround, and fluted key. The left-hand wing is one storey as well, with corner pilasters and a hipped roof. The library is located opposite Wyre Hall.
Local climate
Public Library receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 1 application
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