Burgh Hall And Reading Room, Rosneath Road, Cove

James Chalmers, 1893. Two-storey, asymmetrical, T-plan Scots Renaissance hall and reading rooms. Rubble with harl pointing, red sandstone dressings, margins; Jacobethan detailing.

Southwest elevation: L-plan, advanced gable to left, round tower entrance at re-entrant angle, lower gable to outer right, single storey narrow gabled block to outer left. Main broad gable, two-stage, tripartite mullioned and transomed, segmental-headed windows, upper leaded panes; principal floor window with raised louvered sandstone panel above centre window, broken pediment with strapwork detail; balcony supported on substantial consoles, barley-sugar balusters. Round entrance tower deeply set in re-entrant angle to right. Door with roll-moulded surround, strapwork panel above, small window to left, taller window above, corbelled sandstone chamfer bridging gap between gable and tower; octagonal parapet top with jettied, triangular pedimented surround to elongated orielled dormerhead; conical roof. Lower gabled entrance block to right; elaborate pilastered and pedimented doorpiece encompassing wide round-arched entrance, window at principal floor. Wide arched entrance recess, fluted arch moulding with alternating, banded vermiculated, basket-work and chevron-patterned voussoirs; armorial plaque above keystone of elephant carrying castle, inscribed with legend 'FORTITUDO ET FIDELITAS'. Canted red glazed brick side walls canted in recessed door at centre, two-leaf panelled door with 16-pane large fanlight.

Southeast elevation: asymmetrical block advanced to left, gable breaking eaves to outer right, window at ground left at right return, window at centre at gablehead. Hall recessed to right, later rendered piend-roofed block at re-entrant angle; window to outer right at hall.

Four-pane and eight-pane over plate glass timber sash and case windows. Red clay tiles with terracotta coping; sandstone coping to skews.

Interior: wooden stair with strapwork detailing. Tablet to left in vestibule inscribed 'Burgh of Cove and Kilcreggan Public Halls, opened 5th May 1895 by Provost Donaldson'. New floor level at library.