Carnegie Library is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Carnegie Library
- WRENN ID
- patient-bailey-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Carnegie Library, Town, CF47 8AF
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 062
- Coordinates
- 51.74725, -3.37773
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Carnegie Library is a two-storey building with a basement, designed in the Arts and Crafts Modern style. It features a Portland stone front and a hipped Cumbrian slate roof that extends to wide eaves. The façade includes seven windows, each with three-light mullioned windows (two-light in the center) set in moulded architraves with leaded lights. Ground-floor surrounds are adorned with cornices and guttae drops, and the building stands on a stepped plinth. The central doorway, framed by pilasters, includes a fanlight and niches, all topped with a Tudor arch in a moulded surround. A flight of steps with coped flanking walls leads up to the entrance.
The side elevations are similar, and there is a one-storey extension at the rendered rear. Inside, the library retains a panelled and glazed entrance hall, a heraldic stained-glass window, and a dog-leg staircase, among other features.
Local climate
Carnegie Library sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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