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J and R S Ingram, 1887; minor additions and alterations by A N Paterson, 1899. 2-storey, near-symmetrical T-plan Scots Baronial town hall. Bull-faced, snecked and squared cream sandstone, ashlar dressings. Base and string courses. Single, bipartite and tripartite windows, ashlar mullioned windows, mullioned and transomed to W elevation at 1st floor. W (SINCLAIR STREET/ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: segmental-arched architraved doorway to centre, half-glazed 2-leaf doors with tall fanlight flanked by moulded strip pilasters, narrow windows flanking with bold projecting balustraded balcony above supported on heavy console brackets with ball finials and medallion of Queen Victoria to centre. Tripartite winodws flanking with narrow windows to outer right and left. 3 closely grouped bays to centre at 1st floor with tripartite window with stepped hoomould to centre, narrow windows flanking, corbelled and crenellated parapet above rising to French pavilion roof with brattishing and angle bartizans (that to left with conical lead roof). Tripartite windows to outer bays, crowstepped gables with angle bartizans, (that to right with concial lead roof).

S ELEVATION: crowstepped gabled return with angle bartizans, apex stack, 3 windows at ground, 2 windows at 1st floor. Lower 2-storey link to right with tripartite mullioned and transomed window at 1st floor. Single storey and attic pavilion in re-entrant angle abutting taller and wider hall block to rear. Pavilion with blocked doorway to left, canted oriel window (1899) above with polygonal roof with swept eaves. S return with window to left and bipartite window to right at ground. Taller block to right with bipartite mullioned and transomed windows to centre and left, door below window to centre, Fire escape door to outer right.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 5 bipartite mullioned and transomed windows divided by off-set buttresses, window to outer right partly blocked. Later harled additions to right.

N ELEVATION: gabled return to main block similarly detailed as S elevation, except for door to far left, Lower 2-storey over basement link to left with bipartite mullioned and transomed window at 1st floor. Advanced M-gabled block divided by single bay to centre to outer left. Apex stacks, taller piended roof to hall behind. Basement door to centre, bipartite window above and to left at 1st floor, window to centre at 2nd floor, bipartite window to left. Return to right with basement window to centre, bipartite window at 1st floor, window at 2nd floor.

INTERIOR: columnar vestibule door with Glasgow/Art Nouveau style detail (1899). Compartmental plasterwork to ceiling to entrance hall.

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