Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11442
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/01/1988
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
Carnegie Library
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Town
Town
Locality
Easting
304983
Northing
206293
Street Side
Location
Set back from street behind a semi-circular pave forecourt with low piers (railings removed); Town Hall on N side.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
1935-6. Designed by Councillor T Edmund Rees (of Messrs Johnson, Richards & Rees, architects of Merthyr). Messrs Enoch Williams & Sons, contractors of Dowlais. Cost £8,500.
Exterior
Arts and Crafts Modern.
2-storey and basement, Portland stone front, hipped Cumbrian slate roof swept to wide eaves. 7 windows with 3-light (2-light centre) mullioned windows in moulded architraves, leaded lights. Cornices and guttae drops to ground-floor surrounds. Stepped plinth. Central doorway and fanlight grouped in pilastered frame with niches and Tudor arch in moulded surround to entrance, flight of steps with coped flanking walls lead up.
Similar side elevations, one-storey extension to rendered rear.
Interior
Interior retains panelled and glazed entrance-hall with heraldic stained-glass dog-leg staircase etc.
Reason for designation
Part of good group of listed public buildings in town centre.
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