Town Hall, High Street, Lockerbie

Original design by David Bryce, 1873; began building (?

with modifications) after 1884. Town hall with extravagant

Scots Baronial ornament, tall square corner tower with

conical-roofed bartizans, balustrades, clocks, steep

slate roof with ogee-cupola top. Red ashlar, mostly stugged

and snecked, polished dressings. Both main elevations

composed with entrance bay beside tower (main entrance to

High Street ornately detailed, moulded round-arched

doorway with recessed columns and with parapet) wide gabled

bay beyond, that to Bridge Street with asymmetrical corbel

tables, that to High Street with bartizans, large mullioned

and transomed 1st floor window, 2 shouldered wide panels at

ground with decorative 3-light windows. Slated roofs. Tall

4-bay wing to Bridge Street may not be part of original

composition; (perhaps the hall of 1889) it has mullioned and

transomed 1st floor windows and advanced outer gable.

Interior of high quality with coffered plaster ceilings,

balustraded main stair with arcaded gallery over.