Library, High Street, Langholm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Library.

Library, High Street, Langholm

WRENN ID: riven-grate-lark
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Dumfries and Galloway
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 3 August 1971
Type: Library
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

James Burnet of Ewesbank, Langholm. Built 1875-8 (dated

1877). 2-storey and attic neo-Jacobean public library

adjoining S (rear) wall of Town House, with garden to S and

public road along either flank. Interior totally rebuilt

circa 1980. Stugged ashlar, with polished dressings.

Symmetrical buckle-quoined elevations mainly with

cross-windows (plate glass), leaded and ogee-domed turrets

over clasping angles, wallhead gables with small windows,

kneelers and spike finials. Shallow advanced gabled centre to

S with main door and flanking panels all round-headed;

corbelled rectangular oriel above. Flank elevations 4 (2 + 2)

bays; large shop opening with unusually long stone-lintelled

span (now tourist centre) in W wall. Band and string courses

between floors; eaves band and cornice, wallhead balustrade

at S. Slate roofs.

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