Community Centre, Hall Road, Rhu

This is a community centre and reading room, constructed in 1905 in an Arts and Crafts style with Baronial detailing. The building has a single storey and attic, arranged in an L-shape. The reading room runs north-south, the hall east-west, and they join at a re-entrant angle where a canted porch is located. The exterior is finished with grey harl plaster and ashlar stone detailing, with timber eaves.

The reading room is rectangular and linked to the hall. Its north side features an asymmetrical, advanced, crowstepped gable. A canted bay window is positioned off-centre to the left, with a base course, four timber mullioned windows, and a half-bellcast roof. Above this are two windows, and a smaller window to the right. Stepped ashlar moulding defines the outer right corner of the gable and runs down as a moulding below the eaves on the right return. A bipartite window with a broad mullion is on the right return, alongside a narrow door with a chamfered surround and a lintel bearing the raised lettering 'Reading Room'. A panelled door with a plate glass letterbox fanlight completes the entrance. Five asymmetrical bays are separated by buttresses along the left return.

The hall is rectangular and runs east-west. The canted entrance porch, with a partly-battlemented parapet, faces north within the re-entrant angle of the L-shape. The porch features a segmental-headed door with a chamfered, polished stone surround, a fixed ten-pane segmental fanlight, and a two-leaf vertically panelled door. A small window is located on the left facet of the porch. To the right of the porch is a two-bay block divided by a simple buttress, with bipartite windows featuring stone mullions.

The south (rear) elevation consists of five near-symmetrical bays divided by simple, stepped buttresses. A boarded door is on the outer left, followed by three central bays featuring segmental-headed tripartite windows set under the eaves with timber mullions. A smaller tripartite window is on the outer right.

The building has eight-pane sash and case windows, and a four-over-six pane sash and case canted window. The steeply-pitched green slate roof falls to a catslide on the north elevation of the main block. A ventilator fleche sits at the centre of the roof, composed of a square lead base, a louvred timber main body, and a lead spirelet with a finial. A coped and rendered wallhead stack rises from the roof, topped with squat circular cans.

A rubble and harl-pointed boundary wall with semi-circular coping runs around the property. A stocky, squat drum pier with a conical cap marks the entrance.