Originally built as a private school in 1870, this structure was converted to use as a public reading room in the 1880s. It ws donated to the town in 1901 by its then owner, William Snarey, and is now used as a community centre and meeting room for the Holbeach Civic Society. It is an attractive and distinctive building in the town, being of two storeys and constructed of red brick with blue brick bands, stone dressings, stepped buttresses and steeply pitched slate roofs with Gothic dormers. {1}