Town Hall, 32-36 Allardice Street, Stonehaven

Matthews and Lawrie (Inverness), 1879; additions by D and J R McMillan, 1903. 2-storey and attic, 6-bay (bays grouped 1-5) Renaissance style Town Hall with plain frieze and cornice to pilastered doorpiece, and 5-bay, piend-roofed hall to rear with vaulted and galleried interior. Stugged squared rubble with contrasting polished and raised red sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings; hall of snecked rubble with stugged ashlar dressings. Base, ground floor cill, and band courses, eaves cornice and parapet. Segmental-arched windows and pend entrance to ground, and roundheaded windows with panelled aprons to 1st floor, all keystoned.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 symmetrical bays to right with 2-leaf panelled timber door at centre, windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration linked by band course at springing of arches to 1st floor; slightly set-back bay over pend to outer left with cart arch at ground and single window above. 5 regularly-disposed pedimented dormer windows set-back behind parapet with squat urns and centre panel (with eroded date).

N (HALL) ELEVATION: 4 round-arched windows partially obscured by later lean-to range; further 2-storey crowstepped wing to outer left.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Shouldered and coped ashlar stacks with full-complement of cans. Ashlar-coped skews.

INTERIOR: some fine interior detail retained including moulded plasterwork cornices; timber fire surround; vertically-boarded timber dadoes; architraved and panelled doors. Broad, top-lit, dog-leg staircase with enclosed balustrade. Public hall with decorative, compartmented, vaulted ceiling and horseshoe gallery with decorative cast-iron parapet and stage to E. Bronze and marble mural monument 'In Memory of J W Crombie MP for Kincardineshire 1892-1908. Erected by His Constituents'.