Public Library, 12 Lothian Street, Bonnyrigg is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1997. Library. 3 related planning applications.
Public Library, 12 Lothian Street, Bonnyrigg
- WRENN ID
- rooted-string-curlew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1997
- Type
- Library
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greig, Fairburn & McNiven, dated 1909 with later additions. 2-storey, 4-bay public library with corbelled corner tower to E in Arts and Crafts style. Harled with red ashlar sandstone dressings. Base course; red sandstone band from ground to cill; corbel course between ground and 1st floor; stone mullions and transoms to windows; deep eaves; timber bargeboards.
SE (PRINCIPAL, LOTHIAN STREET) ELEVATION: bays grouped 3-1. 2-storey tower, polygonal, corbelled to circular, in bay to outer right, clasping E angle; corniced and flattened Tudor-arched doorpiece; timber panelled door; narrow windows flanking; heraldic shield tablet above; single window with added cherub set in pediment at 1st floor; ashlar, coped parapet with decorative bosses to lower cornice. Advanced doorpiece with a 4-centred arched doorway and "Public Library" tablet in bay to centre; hemispherical consoled hood above; timber panelled door; tripartite, mullioned and transomed window at 1st floor breaking eaves in half-timbered gable. Tripartite windows at ground with tripartite windows breaking eaves in half-timbered gables at 1st floor above in flanking bays.
NE (DOUGLAS CRESCENT) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay, with lower, 2-storey, 2-bay wing to outer right. Flattened ogee-arched doorpiece with blank tablet above in bay to centre; timber panelled door; bipartite mullioned and transomed stair window at 1st floor above. Tripartite window at ground and bipartite window at 1st floor in each bay to left; timbered gable and harled, coped stack in bay to outer left above. Tripartite window at ground in bay to right; bipartite, gabled dormer window at 1st floor above. Tripartite window at ground in bay to outer right; bipartite gabled dormer window above. Harled, coped stack between bays. Bracketed guttering continuous through dormers.
Leaded small-pane glazing pattern with variety of opening methods including casement, hopper and sash and case. Piended green slate roof; cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
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