Town Hall, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright

The Town Hall on St Mary Street in Kirkcudbright was built in 1878 by Kinnear and Peddie, with Walter Wallace as the builder. This two-storey building features a three-bay elevation facing St Mary's Street and a seven-bay elevation towards Church Place. The exterior is made of polished red sandstone, with rock-faced, rusticated piers flanking the entrance and at the corners. The main entrance has a wide door framed by panelled pilasters and pairs of consoles that support a balcony above, which leads to a first-floor Venetian window. The first-floor bays are divided by paired pilasters, and the outer windows have semi-circular heads, with two similar return bays. A deep frieze is inscribed with "Library, Town Hall, Museum, Reading Room," topped by a deep modillion cornice and a raised roof light. The Church Place elevation has five additional bays constructed from squared granite with red sandstone dressings, featuring five windows and a door on the ground floor, and five semi-circular headed windows with apron panels on the first floor, along with a simple cornice. The building has wall-head stacks and a piended slate roof.