The Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1974. Library. 3 related planning applications.
The Public Library
- WRENN ID
- steep-chapel-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1974
- Type
- Library
- Address
- The Public Library, 88-90, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1HF
- OS grid reference
- SU 186 688
- Coordinates
- 51.41865, -1.73388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Public Library is a mid-19th century building constructed of stock brick with pitched concrete tile roofs. It is a single storey with attics and features a two-gabled front, with a smaller gable set slightly back between the two principal gables. The gables are coped and adorned with ornamental finials, supported on kneelers. Each principal gable has one mullioned window with square heads and hood moulds. The attics contain one coulus each, with outlines formed by the intersection of a trilobe and a triangle, set within "spherical triangles" under hood moulds that have label stops carved as medieval heads. The central bay features a doorway with a 4-centred arch and a modern door, two stringcourses, a single light with a hood mould, and a blind oculus consisting of a quadrilobe set within a square, topped by a shaped gable.
The Public Library, along with Nos 65 to 85 (consecutive), The Sun Public House, and Nos 88 to 90 (consecutive), forms a group with the Church of St Peter and St Paul, as well as Nos 42 to 64 (consecutive) on the south side.
Local climate
The 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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