Innerleithen Public Library Including Boundary Walls, 1 Buccleuch Street

Peter L Henderson, 1903. 2-storey, 4-bay, Renaissance style, rectangular-plan library with tripartite segmental-arched windows and corniced segmental pediments to first floor bipartite windows. Pre-cast bullfaced concrete blocks with sandstone margins to principal elevation; render to sides and rear. First floor cornice; continuous cill course; eaves cornice punctuated by pediments. Entrance doorpiece with squat ionic columns and heavy round-arched hoodmould. Steep piended roof; central, square, lead ridge ventilator. Asymmetrical fenestration pattern to rear with forestair and cantilevered walkway to former caretaker's apartment.

Fixed timber casements and plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Cast-iron rainwater goods with downpipes dividing bays.

INTERIOR: good early Edwardian detailing to interior. Geometric tiled floor to lobby with etched glass panel inscribed 'Carnegie Library' to inner door. Wide dogleg stair with stone steps and cast iron balustrade leading to large first floor hall with 3 laminated timber trusses, combed ceiling and tongue and groove dado height panelling.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low rubble whinstone wall with stone copings to front.