New Hall Library

New Hall Library is a library built between 1843 and 1845 by Philip Hardwick and PC Hardwick, with JL Pearson. It was enlarged at the east end from 1871 to 1873 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The building is constructed of red brick with blue diaper patterns and stone dressings, topped with a lead roof, and is designed in the Tudor style. It has a rectangular plan consisting of eight bays and two storeys, positioned at a right angle to New Inn Hall, sharing the same entrance.

The library features three-light windows that are separated by stone-dressed buttresses, which rise through an embattled parapet and are topped with stone finials. The east and west elevations have gables and include two-storey canted bay windows with tracery. There are octagonal turrets at the north-west and south-east corners, with the south-east turret featuring a glazed lookout and a spire. The building is adorned with tall, decorative brick chimneys.

Inside, the library has stone-faced walls and a wooden open truss roof supported by pendentives. There are cast-iron galleries for shelves on three levels.