District Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1982. A C20 Library. 1 related planning application.
District Public Library
- WRENN ID
- veiled-spindle-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury MP: Antonia Bance (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1982
- Type
- Library
- Address
- District Public Library, Victoria Road, DY4 8SR
- OS grid reference
- SO 961 917
- Coordinates
- 52.5238, -2.05808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The District Public Library, built in 1905 by George H Wenyon, is a public library located at the junction of Victoria Road and Mayfair Gardens in Tipton. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring bands of yellow terra cotta, and has a tiled roof in a free style. It is primarily a one-storey structure.
The entrance is situated at the base of a tower that faces Victoria Road, which is adorned with corner buttresses and topped with a domed lantern. Above the round-arched doorway, there is a terra cotta panel inscribed with "Tipton Free Library AD 1905". To the right of the entrance, the main façade has five bays, each containing three-light windows with transoms, separated by buttresses. Gables are present over the second and fourth bays. A foundation stone notes that the library was "Erected by the Munificence of Andrew Carnegie Esq .....".
To the left of the tower, there is a gable of a wing that faces Mayfair Gardens. The lower part of this wall is canted and features two 2-light mullioned windows. Above these, there is a round-headed window with mullions and a transom. The left-hand return wall of this wing consists of five bays separated by buttresses, with four-light windows and transoms, except for the right-hand bay, which contains a canted bay window.
Local climate
District Public Library receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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