Carnegie Free Library, 1 High Street, Maybole is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 2003. Library.
Carnegie Free Library, 1 High Street, Maybole
- WRENN ID
- scarred-basalt-solstice
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 2003
- Type
- Library
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Office of James Kennedy Hunter, 1906; alterations and repairs 2001. 2-storey Scots Renaissance purpose-built library on prominent corner site; Venetian windows to 1st floor breaking broad, mutuled eaves cornice. Central pilastered doorpiece to High Street with 'CARNEGIE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY' and arms above; flanking bays (altered 2001, formerly bipartite windows) that to L now entrance. Curved corner bay with 3 bipartites to ground; central 1st floor bipartite flanked by square pillars projecting beyond eaves with pyramidal caps on ball feet; cartouche with coronet between; conical slated tower on flat roof with weathervane. 3 bays to St Cuthbert's Road each with tripartite to ground an Venetian window above. Door to basement outer L.
Battered base course to sloping ground on St Cuthbert's Road. Squared and snecked bull-faced pink sandstone; polished ashlar dressings.
SW ELEVATION: gable to L with small bipartite to ground, tall transomed bipartite above; 6 ground and 6 1st floor windows to R.
Replacement timber sash and case windows in traditional style. Grey slates; straight skews; coped ashlar ridge stacks; clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: recently refurbished; little original fabric survives.
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