Former Reading Room And Wash House

The former reading room and wash house, now used as stores, dates from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of local shale rubble with granite dressings and has a red brick rear wall. The building features a slate roof with gable ends, deep eaves, and red clay ridge tiles, along with a central red brick axial stack.

The structure is a long, single-storey rectangular building with two rooms, each heated by back-to-back fireplaces connected to the central stack. Both rooms have doorways at the front. The exterior is single-storey and symmetrical, with two 19th-century six-pane horizontally pivoted windows at the center, each with slate sills, and a plank door at each of the doorways to the left and right. Each gable end has a 19th-century wooden chamfered window with a transom.

There are no windows in the rear wall, which faces a small stream that flows into the creek at Porth Navas. Inside, the reading room features a small fireplace with a moulded granite shelf and a decorated cast iron grate, while the former wash house is said to have had a copper boiler.