It is situated to the south-west of Durham and adjoins Meadowfield.
The Browney Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1887, to seat 270, and cost £400.
The library comprised over 1000 books, and the reading room was supplied with popular newspapers.
This was at a time when popular culture emphasised the benefits of literacy, via the Worker's Educational Movement.
This movement supplemented a relentless drive for self-improvement, involving literacy connected with the Book of Common Prayer, and standard forms of Christian worship.