Somerset County Library

The Somerset County Library, located in Bridgwater, is an early 19th-century building originally designed as a school and now serving as a library office. It is constructed of English-bond brick and features a shallow-pitched pantile roof with brick ridge stacks positioned to the left of the center and at the left gable end. The building has a rectangular plan with late 19th-century to early 20th-century wings added to the right. The main schoolroom is a single storey, while the master's accommodation on the right end has two storeys and an attic, presenting a seven-window range.

The front entrance is situated in the 19th-century schoolroom wing, where the facade displays six large semicircular gauged brick arches above tall windows with small panes. To the left, there is a two-storey canted bay that extends through the eaves, adorned with a dentilled cornice, 6/6-pane sash windows, and paneling between the floors. The left return, approximately 15 meters wide, features a 20th-century bracketed gable above a wide semicircular five-light fixed attic window. The first floor showcases flat gauged brick arches over 3/3-pane sash windows, flanking a similar wide arch above a narrower 20th-century casement window. The ground floor includes wide semi-elliptical arched recesses on each side, possibly indicating a former stable entrance to the left, a blocked door to the far right, a flat arch leading to a central 20th-century door, and a low segmental brick arch over a blocked opening.

The rear of the building resembles the front, with the exception of 20th-century windows at the accommodation end, where the first floor features an oriel window that passes through the eaves. Inside, the main block, which was once a large schoolroom, is now used as an office. The left range contains wide floorboards and a planked door leading to the attic, along with a dogleg staircase at the rear right. The first floor includes a square stone surround framing a fireplace.