Library

The building is a library, originally erected as a town hall over a market house in 1806. It was financed by John, 6th Duke of Bedford. Constructed of slate stone rubble with dressed quoins and dressed stone arches for the window openings, it has a rag slate roof with hipped ends. The building has a rectangular plan, although internal partitions have been altered.

The original design included a market house on the ground floor with a central entrance facing the Market Place, and a town hall above with a staircase to a rear doorway, necessitated by a change in ground level. The ground rises to the left and rear. The symmetrical front facade features three bays with five semi-circular headed windows. The window frames were replaced in the mid-20th century, and the central window fills a previously blocked door opening. The first floor also has three semi-circular windows with horned sashes and intersecting glazing bars. To the right, a lower side has a 20th-century glazed door and a Venetian window above, with a horned sash and intersecting glazing bars. The left side features a 20th-century door and a Venetian window above with a stained-glass window displaying the Camelford arms. Part of the wall above has been rebuilt. The rear elevation has four blocked round-headed openings on the ground floor, with a double flight of steps leading to a first-floor entrance sheltered by a 19th-century timber porch with a flat roof and moulded cornice. Two sash windows with round-headed arches and intersecting glazing bars are positioned to the right and left. A timber cupola on the roof houses a clock and weather vane; it originally held two bells dated 1807 and 1699.

The interior was remodelled in the mid-20th century. A bell from the cupola, located in the entrance, is inscribed with "W. Prideaux Mayor, 1699”. The history of the site includes a charter confirmed in 1259 and the creation of a "rotten borough" in 1552, which was later abolished in 1831.