Listed Building record MDR24702 - Carnegie Free Library, Market Place, Ilkeston

Carnegie Free Library, Market Place, Ilkeston, built in 1904. From the National Heritage List for England: 'PARISH OF ILKESTON MARKET PLACE SK 4641 NW 7/46 (South Side) Carnegie Free Library GV II Library. 1904 by Hunter & Woodhouse of Belper. Edwardian 'Free Style'. Orange brick and ashlar with sandstone dressings. Plain tile and glazed roofs hidden behind parapets. Chamfered rusticated plinth. Two storeys over a basement visible to west owing to falling ground. North elevation has a pair of ashlar faced canted bays. These have to the main face a window in moulded stone architrave and above, a round-headed window with moulded stone architrave and elongated keyblock. Flanked by simplified Ionic half columns with pieces of entablature above. Canted sides have a window with moulded architrave to each floor, and a moulded cornice above. Five bays between, the windows all on the upper floor. Central projecting doorway with banded rusticated. Round-arched doorway with moulded surround and keyblock, flanked by thin Tuscan columns supporting a round-arched hood and enclosing the elongated keystone with superimposed swag of the doorway. Plain band linked to the sills of the canted bays. Above the entrance a stone panel inscribed in relief CARNEGIE/FREE LIBRARY. The first floor has five windows with moulded stone surrounds and between them carved relief Art Nouveau panels. Cornice and low parapet above. The west elevation has a tall bay to the left given the same treatment as the middle part of the canted bays. To the right, a projecting bay with a tripartite window to the basement and a row of five keyed oculi. Taller part to right again with two narrow ashlar canted bays and four stone bands flush with the wall surface, all above the rusticated basement. Plain window surrounds. Most windows have small pane metal casements. The interior has a staircase hall with stairs around an open well. Wrought iron stair rails with openwork iron newel posts of tapering profile. Segmental barrel vaulted plaster ceiling to first floor with plaster mouldings. First floor gallery supported on four Ionic columns. Listing NGR: SK4650641644.' (1)