Vale Resource Centre

The Vale Resource Centre is an Edwardian Renaissance style building constructed in red brick, featuring a bathstone frontispiece and dressings. It has hipped slate roofs with tiled ridges. The frontispiece has five bays and is topped by a tapering slate-hung belcote, diagonal buttresses, arched louvres, and a clock face, with a weathervane on the dome. The recessed center has an open pediment, a swagged cartouche linked to a keyblock over the arched head of a first-floor Venetian window, and Ionic half columns. Above the Tuscan colonnade at the rusticated ground floor, there is an angel and urn relief frieze. The advanced and rusticated outer bays feature a cornice and parapets, with broken pediments clasping oculi on the first-floor architraves and arched heads below. The double entrance doors are beneath a traceried fanlight.

The side elevations have seven bays linked by a bracket cornice and plain frieze, with panelled brick pilasters at the corners, freestone aprons on the upper floor, and cambered heads with keystones and brick aprons on the ground floor. The windows are small-pane sash types. The side elevations also have arched heads with tall stair lights, and the rear roofs are equipped with domed and arched ventilators.

Inside, the building retains several original rooms, including an entrance hall featuring a coffered ceiling and Tuscan columns. The board room above is noted for its segmental vaulted ceiling with ribs on volute brackets and groins at the arched window head. A fine seven-bay segmentally vaulted hall extends to the rear, with transverse ribs connecting to pilasters, arched architraves on the windows, and panelled dados, along with a modern platform at the outer end. There is also a second transverse building, formerly a library, which has lunette windows on its northern front.