Former public library, now disused. 1882 by William Henman of Henman & Beddoes of Birmingham for William Gilstrap, a local maltster who was mayor of Newark in 1888. Rear addition 1933, in sympathetic style. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with octagonal wooden lantern with leaded ogee dome. Jacobean Revival style. Chamfered plinth, sill band, moulded eaves, shouldered coped gables with ornate finials, single gable stack. Chamfered, mullioned and transomed windows throughout. Single storey plus attics and basement. 3 bay triple gabled east front has a recessed central bay containing a single storey crenellated porch topped with crest and finial. Pointed doorway with shafts and lintel inscribed "Gilstrap Library", flanked single 3 light windows. Above and behind, a large 4 light window with tympanum. To left, a crenellated square bay window with 5 lights. To right, a large 6 light window and above it a small round window with trefoil tracery. 3 bay north front has a central gabled square bay window, 6 lights, flanked by single 2 storey splayed bay windows with hipped roofs. West front has to left a single gabled bay with with a 6 light window and central addition, 1933. Single storey, 6 window range of 2 light windows, topped with parapet. Set back south bay has 2 windows. (EH)