Exterior
Arts & Crafts style Institute. Front range with gable-end façade, large block to rear, entrances to S side. The front range is timber-framed above masonry, under slate-covered roofs with barge boards. The gable-end façade is of rubble to lower part with sandstone quoins and dressings, timber-framing above with collar truss and pegged narrow panels. Central 3-light window rising to collar with flanking sidelights. Moulded wooden-framed window with basket arch and transom, containing quarries and stained glass. A clock is fixed at right angles to the gable apex, and a bell to the SE angle of the building. Below, to the masonry section, is a small 2-light window with quarries offset to L of centre, L of which is a wooden notice board.
An entrance passage, reached by a flight of concrete steps, runs along the S side of the building. The timber-framing to the S side of the front range is mainly covered in roughcast; a post and arched brace are visible to the R. To the L, in the angle with the rear range, is a lean-to porch of rubble masonry and timber-framing, reached by 2 steps. The entrance faces E; segmental wooden archway and quarry tile floor; boarded door with 8-pane overlight set back. The S side of the porch has a large 3-light window, and a glazed notice box to its R. To the R of the porch, the masonry section has a further doorway to R of centre, with double boarded doors containing small lights under a concrete lintel. To the rendered section are 2 x 3-light windows, similar to the gable-end but with flat heads. To L of the porch is the 2-storey block, the front advanced and with 3 gables. It is roughcast with slate-covered roofs, the verges projecting. To L of centre, is a boarded door with 8-pane overlight, under a suspended porch canopy, boarded to the underside. To R of doorway are 2 x 3-light windows, as front range. To the L is a 2-light window with transom. Upper storey has similar window to R gable. The rear (W) side of the block has a 3-light window to the R end. The N side of the Institute is roughcast with 4 x 3-light windows with flat heads, as elsewhere.
Adjoining the rear (W) side, and accessed from the S, is an L-shaped wing dated 1929 and further later additions. These ranges are also roughcast, with a brick stack, boarded and panelled doors at different levels, and a variety of wooden windows.
The gable-end façade is raised above street level, in front of which is a small garden of remembrance bounded by simple iron railings attached to a rubble stone retaining wall with chamfered stone copings. The railings are lower to the centre and reveal a stone tablet with brass plaque which gives a historical account of the Institute.