Bingham Library

The Bingham Library, now Cirencester Town Council offices, was built in 1904 by VA Lawson for Daniel Bingham. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof with coped verges. An ashlar stack is located on the left end.

The building is in a Jacobethan style, featuring a projecting central gabled bay and additional gables to the left and right. It is two storeys and an attic, with an 8-window front. The first floor has a prominent, canted 4-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom oriel window in the centre, rising three lights in height and featuring leaded lights. Flanking this are similar 3- and 4-light windows grouped in threes, each with a single hoodmould arching upwards over the taller 4-light window. A narrower bay on the right side connects to the adjacent building and has a 2-light window on the first floor.

The central gable has a 2-light chamfered stone mullion window with a hoodmould, while the flanking gables have similar 3-light windows. On the ground floor, a pair of plank doors are set within a moulded stone architrave with a round head and moulded keystone, flanked by narrow single-light leaded windows with individual hoodmoulds. Groups of windows to the left and right are similar to those on the first floor. A six-panel door with a 3-pane overlight is positioned on the right side, with three steps leading up. A deep ashlar plinth with a moulded top transitions to a deeper plinth with a moulded top on the central bay. The centre bay features a moulded string above the ground floor and a frieze with relief lettering reading "BINGHAM LIBRARY." A moulded cornice is topped with heavy brattishing. An oval panel within the central gable has a moulded stone surround and a carved book with the date 1904. Coped gables incorporate moulded kneelers and trefoil stops, with a moulded finial to the central gable.

The interior features a cantilevered stone staircase with a wrought-iron balustrade and a mahogany handrail, extending from the ground floor to the second floor. Four-light stone mullion-and-transom windows with stained glass are present on the first and second landings. The outer hall is tiled and separated from the inner hall by a mahogany glazed screen with bevelled glass and a pair of swing doors. The inner hall and stairs have a tiled dado and a panelled plaster ceiling with strapwork decoration and a continuous strapwork frieze connecting the outer and inner halls. A glazed screen is on the left side of the outer hall. The inner hall has two doors in moulded architraves with pulvinated friezes and dentil cornices. The right side of the first floor is noted to have an enriched panelled plaster ceiling.