Library Approximately 20 Metres North West Of King Alfred'S School

The library, built around 1872 by William Butterfield, is located approximately 20 meters northwest of King Alfred's School. It is constructed of English bond brick with flared headers arranged in a diaper pattern, featuring limestone ashlar dressings and an old tile roof with brick stacks. The building is a single storey with a four-window range.

A hipped central porch leads into the lobby, which has a wood pointed chamfered arch and a segmental-headed arch above double plank doors adorned with decorative hinges. The porch is flanked by outshuts that contain 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows with chamfered brick jambs and offset buttresses. Hipped half-dormers feature 2-light transomed windows with cusped heads. A flush ashlar band runs beneath the dog-tooth eaves, and the gabled roof is topped with ashlar coping, moulded kneelers, and decorative ridge tiles, with an offset rear lateral stack. The side walls display segmental arches over 2- and 3-light windows, also with cusped heads, and there are two similar half-dormers flanking the rear stack. Inside, the library features an arch-braced collar-truss roof.