Public Library, 10 St Ninian's Square, Brechin

1892 J Graham Fairley. Victorian Renaissance with French

and American characteristics. Single-storey with 2-storey

and attic corner pavilion. Library wing 4-bay, left-hand

bay wide-arched entrance feature with recessed door,

3 four-light mullioned and transomed windows on right with

arched features at 2 central lights, slated roof with deep

plain parapets ogee-roofed ventilator and aedicular pediment

gable over right hand bay. Corner pavilion to left of

entrance, 2 storey and attic containing custodian's house,

entered by 2-storey semi-octagonal porch with pedimented

doorpiece on W elevation. S front 2 two-light mullioned and

double transomed ground floor windows, 1st floor 3 window,

outer 2 pedimented, centre arched and key blocked with small

corbelled balcony. Shaped pedimented dormer over in tall

pavilion roof, big stack on W flank with pedimented panel.