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

Peter L Henderson, Edinburgh, dated 1905; with Mr Brown, Inspector of Works. 2-storey, 3-bay plain Baronial library with crenellated tower-like entrance and crowstepped gables, closing irregular but significant terrace. Sandstone ashlar to principal elevation with narrow stugged ashlar bands; squared and snecked rubble to sides, polished margins. Raised base course forming ground floor cill course; moulded corniced eaves course to right (N). Stepped moulded hood-moulds at ground floor, that to left roll-moulded and forming break in building line. Advanced cills at first floor, crowstepped gables and crenellated tower parapet. Tri-partite ground stone transomed and mullioned windows at ground floor.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced centre bay incorporating deep-set 2-leaf panelled timber door with hoodmould and label stops enclosing relief-carved panel 'A 1905 D' and roll-moulded arris. Single window above giving way to panel with relief lettering reading: 'CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY' battlemented parapet over. Gabled bay to left of centre with mullioned and transomed tripartite window at ground, inscribed panel to left worded 'TO THE CITIZENS OF KINROSS, MILNATHORT, KELTY IN GRATITUDE FOR THE HOSPITALITY RECEIVED BY POLISH TANK TRAINING CENTRE 1942-1948', bipartite window to 1st floor; similarly-fenestrated bay to right with 1st floor window breaking eaves into crowstepped pediment.

N ELEVATION: gabled elevation with 4-light transomed window at ground and bipartite above, small flat-roofed porch addition in re-entrant angle to right, adjoining Town Hall (see separate listing).

S ELEVATION: bays grouped to left with boarded timber door and multi-pane fanlight flanked by bipartite to left and horizontal tripartite to right; 1st floor with bipartite breaking eaves into catslide dormer and 2 small windows to right.

INTERIOR: now (2010) largely ruinous but with some evidence of dogtooth cornicing. Former billiard hall at rear retains hammerbeam-type roof, large stone corbels and decorative cast iron roof ventilators.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped

shouldered ashlar stacks with cans. Square section cast-iron downpipes with decorative fixings.