Kineton Public Library And Attached Wall And Railings And North Court

Kineton Public Library, originally a courthouse and house, is now used as a library and house, with an attached wall and railings. It dates from the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century addition on the left end. The building is constructed of regular coursed lias limestone with ironstone ashlar dressing and features a hipped slate roof with a brick cross-axial stack and an end stack. The wall along Warwick Road is made of white and blue coursed dressed limestone with ironstone quoins and flat coping, forming an L-plan.

The exterior has three storeys and a four-window range, with a two-storey, single-window wing at the left end. It features a top coved cornice and quoins, with a first-floor sill band on the wing. The entrance to the right of the wing has an architrave, and the overlight includes a fanlight with radial glazing bars above a small-paned half-glazed door. The central entrance has a bolection-moulded architrave with a frieze and a segmental pediment above another small-paned half-glazed door. The windows have sills and ashlar jambs, with wedge lintels and keys over 8/8 sashes. The ground-floor left end window has a 2-light small-paned casement, while five top-floor windows have 4/8 sashes. The wing has a first-floor sill band that is cut flush, with windows that include a 12/12 sash on the ground floor and a 6/6 sash on the first floor. The three-window left return retains the sill band.

Inside, there is a stick-baluster staircase leading to the library, and the rooms feature plaster detailing. The subsidiary features include plain iron railings on a stone plinth along the left return, which has a short return to the front and extends approximately 14 meters along Warwick Road, attached to the back garden wall. The wall has a short return to the library with a gateway and extends approximately 12.5 meters along Warwick Road.