Rogerstone Public Library

Rogerstone Public Library is a public library built in 1905, constructed from rockfaced squared purple sandstone with a slate roof that has deep eaves. The front features a pedimental gable and a large timber ventilation lantern on the roof, with a parallel lower roofed range to the left. The facade has an open pediment with dentils and roughcast around an ashlar cartouche inscribed 'Carnegie Free Library 1905'. Below this, the facade is recessed between raised piers that support the pediment returns, and it has an ashlar moulded sill-course. There are three long ashlar windows with moulded surrounds, a frieze, and a cornice, with the cornices resting on a flush ashlar band across the pediment. The windows are long 18-pane designs, with the top six panes tilting and the bottom twelve being sash windows. The timber lantern on the ridge features louvred roundels on each face and a leaded square dome.

The plain right side wall is made of rubble stone and includes two chimneys and two red brick framed windows. The lower wing parallel to the left side has a hipped roof and is set back, featuring an ashlar cross-mullioned window in the end wall with 8-pane sashes behind the mullions and a moulded sill. The eaves are also moulded ashlar. In the angle between the front range and the side range, there is a flat-roofed porch with a front wall that continues with the main gable front. This porch has a roundel in a moulded surround with four keyblocks and coloured leaded glazing, and an ashlar egg-and-dart moulded cornice. The side wall contains the main entry, which is an ashlar arched doorway with a triple keystone.

The left side wall of the parallel range has six windows in red brick surrounds, all positioned towards the left end. Inside the reading room, there are two long windows at the rear, and towards the left end of the right wall, there is a late 19th-century imitation marble fireplace with an early 20th-century overmantel that is marked 'Rogerstone Roll of Honour'.