Carnegie Library And Museum, 112 And 114 High Street, Kinross

The Carnegie Library and Museum, situated at 112 and 114 High Street, Kinross, was designed by Peter L Henderson of Edinburgh and completed in 1905, with Mr Brown acting as Inspector of Works. This two-story building is constructed in a plain Baronial style and is notable for its crenellated tower-like entrance and crowstepped gables, though it now closes an irregular terrace.

The principal (east) elevation is faced with sandstone ashlar, accented by narrow stugged ashlar bands, while the sides are of squared and snecked rubble with polished margins. A raised base course forms a ground floor cill course, and a moulded corniced eaves course is present on the north side. Stepped moulded hood-moulds are visible at ground floor, with the left-hand hood roll-moulded and creating a break in the building line. Advanced cills are at the first floor, and the crenellated tower parapet tops the building. The central bay is slightly advanced and features a deep-set, two-leaf panelled timber door with a hoodmould and label stops, enclosing a relief-carved panel displaying “A 1905 D”. Above the door is a panel with relief lettering reading "CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY." A gabled bay to the left of centre includes a mullioned and transomed tripartite window at ground level, and a commemorative panel inscribed "TO THE CITIZENS OF KINROSS, MILNATHORT, KELTY IN GRATITUDE FOR THE HOSPITALITY RECEIVED BY POLISH TANK TRAINING CENTRE 1942-1948”, alongside a bipartite window to the first floor. A similar-fenestrated bay to the right features a first-floor window that breaks the eaves into a crowstepped pediment.

The north elevation is gabled with a four-light transomed window at ground level and a bipartite window above. A small, flat-roofed porch addition, adjoining the Town Hall (listed separately), is set into the re-entrant angle on the right. The south elevation groups bays around a boarded timber door and multi-pane fanlight, flanked by a bipartite window to the left and a horizontal tripartite window to the right. The first floor features a bipartite window breaking eaves into a catslide dormer and two smaller windows to the right.

The interior, as of 2010, is largely ruinous, although some evidence of dogtooth cornicing remains. The former billiard hall at the rear retains a hammerbeam-type roof, large stone corbels, and decorative cast iron roof ventilators. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates, and the building is equipped with coped, shouldered ashlar stacks with cans, along with square section cast-iron downpipes with decorative fixings.