Annan Town Hall

Annan Town Hall, designed by architect R Smith of Glasgow, was built in 1875. This two-storey town house features a prominent four-stage tower at the center of the main eastern elevation. The building showcases Scots Baronial detailing, including bartizans, roll-moulding, and crow-stepped gables, constructed from red ashlar stone.

The tower has a cable-moulded round-arched wide doorway, with a balustraded balcony above and an empty base and canopy intended for sculpture. The bartizans are corbelled and topped with conical roofs, while the top stage has louvred openings. Each face of the first stage of the slated and leaded spire features a clock. On either side of the tower, there are two bays with cross-windows. The exterior is accented with horizontal string courses, louvred dormer-shaped ventilators, and corniced end stacks, all beneath a slate roof. A large first-floor window on the south gable has a hoodmould and a Jacobean detailed head. A three-bay rear wing extends to the west, and there is a modern addition to the north gable. Free-standing lamps flank the doorway, supported by cast-iron brackets on ashlar bases.

Inside, there have been modern alterations, but the hall on the first floor runs the full length of the building.