Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 September 1986. Masonic hall.
Public Library
- WRENN ID
- leaning-cornice-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 September 1986
- Type
- Masonic hall
- OS grid reference
- SS 905 798
- Coordinates
- 51.50711, -3.57835
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a public library, designed in the Mannerist style and constructed in two storeys with a three-bay front. It features Bath freestone detailing, with red brick facing on the first floor and channelled grey local stone on the ground floor. The design includes a balustraded parapet, a modillion cornice, and a plain entablature. The central segmental pediment is supported by paired composite columns, which frame a tripartite first-floor window that has a lobed balustraded balcony. The window is flanked by deeply recessed windows with broken pedimented architraves and blind balustraded aprons. There is a cornice and lettered entablature on the first floor. Below the first-floor columns, advanced wave-capped pillars flank a panelled double door entrance. The ground floor features stilted segmental arched openings with truncated nook shafts and a keystone at the center.
Local climate
Public Library sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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