Abbey Shop Abbeytown Library

Abbey Shop and Abbeytown Library is a late 19th-century building that has undergone alterations in 1973. It incorporates part of the guest house of Holme Cultram Abbey. The structure is made of squared blocks of red sandstone laid in irregular courses and features a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers, along with stone chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with a single-bay extension to the left under a common roof and an angled single-storey passage extension to the right that connects with the porch of the former Abbey, which is listed alongside the Church of St Mary. The entrance features plank doors set in stone surrounds, and there are hollow-chamfered two-light stone mullioned windows. The shop extension has 20th-century windows, including a large shop window in the left end wall. The rear wall of the library displays part of a chamfered plinth and lower courses of earlier stonework, which may have been part of a building in the outer court of the Abbey. The building is listed partly for its group value with the Church of St Mary.