Town Hall, 17 Shore Street, Macduff

The Town Hall at 17 Shore Street in Macduff, designed by Pirie and Clyne of Aberdeen, dates from 1884 and is built in a baronial style. It is a two-storey building with an attic and features a wide three-bay frontage facing Shore Street. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing over a raised basement that projects and ends at a gable for the Church Street entrance.

The building is constructed from tooled dark whinstone, with contrasting bullfaced and polished ashlar dressings, and rubble flanks and rear. The centre bay is slightly advanced and has a deep battered bullfaced base course. It features a rounded-headed entrance with a keystone and double-leaf panelled doors, flanked by paired round-headed windows, also with keystones.

The centre bay rises significantly above the wallhead, topped with an ornately decorative gable that is flanked by narrow bartizans with conical roofs. The gable is illuminated by a lunette and has a blind oculus at the centre, along with a finialled pediment carved with a knight on horseback, reminiscent of the carving on the Burgh Cross. The outer bays have gabled wallhead dormers, and there is a wide canted oriel window on the first floor of the outer bays, featuring two and three-pane glazing.

The building has tall coped end stacks and a slate roof. The rear consists of a six-bay range with simple fenestration and a narrow three-bay gable that includes a central entrance and a piended slate roof.