The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. MARKET STREET 5274 (South Side) Dartford Public Library. Dartford Museum. The Dartford Veterans Club. TQ 5473 3/44
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2. Built in 1916 by T E Tiffin. Presented by Andrew Carnegie. 1 storey red brick with stone dressings. Hipped slate roof having central octagona1 cupola with dome. This has double pilasters and round-headed windows, urns at the corners and swag moulding to the base. Central open pediment with cartouche of Kent and swags supported on coupled Tuscan columns. Balustraded parapet. Round-headed doorcase with decorated keystone. 6 fixed casement windows in all, 2 of them 3-light windows set in projecting open pedimented window surrounds with Tuscan columns. Plinth.
Listing NGR: TQ5431573907
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During the Second World War a fire watching post existed on the roof of Dartford Public Library. No other details are known. (2) A Food Control Office also utilised rooms at Dartford Public Library. (3)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> PW Boreham and CR Baker, 01/01/1995, Home Front Dartford 1939-1945 (p. 16) (Bibliographic reference). SKE24271.

<3> PW Boreham and CR Baker, 01/01/1995, Home Front Dartford 1939-1945 (p23) (Bibliographic reference). SKE24272.