Burnbank Library, Burnbank Centre, Hamilton

Burnbank Library, located at Burnbank Centre in Hamilton, was designed by Alexander Cullen and completed in 1894. This two-storey, rectangular-plan library features stugged and snecked rubble with stugged ashlar dressings, topped by a grey/green slate roof adorned with plain terracotta ridge tiles. The front elevation has a base and eaves course, with a variety of windows including single, paired, and bipartite designs that have roll-moulded architraves. The windows are sash and case style, with plate glass on the bottom and six panes on the top, while the rear has a single sash and case window. The building is characterized by crow-stepped gables and corbel-detailed gablets, along with a corniced stack rising from the gablet roof at the center and cut-down end stacks.

On the west elevation, there are paired windows at the center flanked by doors, although the left door is blocked. This area features a cornice and a segmental pediment, which is flanked by obelisks topped with inverted ball finials. The first floor has paired windows with segmentally-pedimented heraldic detail at the gablet, a bipartite window with a hoodmould on the ground floor to the right, and a single window on the first floor with a dated gablet. To the left, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay with a bipartite window featuring a stepped hoodmould on the ground floor, two pointed windows on the first floor with stepped corbel detail, and a large canted oriel with two clock faces in the roof space.

The north and south gables are blank. The east elevation includes two doors and various windows, with a single-storey bay advanced to the right.

Inside, the library features a stone scale and platt cantilever staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters. The rear of the property is enclosed by a coped snecked rubble wall.