Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1976. Library. 10 related planning applications.
Public Library
- WRENN ID
- old-sandstone-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1976
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Public Library, Sheep Street, Kettering Town, NN16 0AN
- OS grid reference
- SP 866 783
- Coordinates
- 52.39633, -0.7275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Public Library, built in 1904 by Goddard, Paget and Catlow, is designed in the Arts and Crafts style. It features red brick with stone dressings and a Collyweston slated roof that has three gables. The building is single-storey with projecting ends and a slightly projecting center, which includes a wide entrance with an elliptically chamfered arch accessed by stone steps. The windows are mullioned and transomed casements. Atop the roof ridge is a central lantern and cupola. The library also serves as an art gallery and is part of a group that includes the Alfred East Monument and Dryland Fountain.
Local climate
Public Library sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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