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Latitude: 51.5071 / 51°30'25"N
Longitude: -3.5783 / 3°34'41"W
OS Eastings: 290557
OS Northings: 179868
OS Grid: SS905798
Mapcode National: GBR HD.J8N7
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.XCNZ
Plus Code: 9C3RGC4C+RM
Entry Name: Public Library
Listing Date: 29 September 1986
Last Amended: 29 September 1986
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11308
Building Class: Recreational
ID on this website: 300011308
Location: Set back and detached in the street frontage with iron railings to the front.
County: Bridgend
Town: Bridgend
Community: Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)
Community: Bridgend
Built-Up Area: Bridgend
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Public library Carnegie library Arts centre
Built 1907 by £2,000 Carnegie grant on land given by Earl of Dunraven.
Mannerist 2-storey, 3-bay front; Bath freestone detailing with red brick facing to 1st floor and channelled grey local stone to ground floor. Balustraded parapet, modillion cornice, plain entablature and advanced central segmental pediment carried on paired composite columns to pedimented tripartite 1st floor window with lobed balustraded balcony. Flanked by deeply recessed windows with broken pedimented architraves and blind balustraded aprons. Cornice and lettered entablature to 1st floor; advanced wave capped pillars, below 1st floor columns, flank panelled double door entrance; stilted segmental arched openings with truncated nook shafts, keystone to centre.
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