Annan Town Hall

R Smith of Glasgow, architect. Dated 1875. 2-storey Town

house with prominent 4-stage tower central on main (E)

elevation. Scots Baronial detailing with bartizans,

roll-moulding, crow-stepped gables. Red ashlar.

Cable-moulded round-arched wide doorway in tower, balustraded

balcony above and empty base and canopy for sculpture;

corbelled conical-roofed bartizans, louvred openings in top

stage, clock to each face of 1st stage of slated and leaded

spire. 2 bays either side of tower with cross-windows.

Horizontal string courses; louvred dormer-shaped ventilators;

corniced end stacks; slate roof. Large 1st floor window with

hoodmould and Jacobean detailed head - S gable; 3-bay rear

wing extends to W. Modern addition to N gable. Free-standing

lamps flank doorway, cast-iron brackets on ashlar bases.

INTERIOR: modern alterations; hall at 1st floor runs full

length of building.