The library was designed by the partnership of Briggs and Wolstenholme.

It occupies a site at the fork of two roads and at the narrowest part features a turret with a clock and a conical roof.

[1][2] Since 1976 it has been protected as a Grade II listed building.

[1] It still serves its original purpose as a public library.

In 1990 there was a major refurbishment and the library was extended into the adjacent building, the Old Town Hall.