New Town Hall, 53 St John Street, Whithorn

David Henry, St Andrews 1885. Tudor style town hall. Squared and snecked whintstone rubble with ashlar dressings; base course, stone mullions and transoms; chamfered reveals.

E ELEVATION: gabled porch recessed to left; hoodmoulded pointed-arch doorway (foliate label stops) in chamfered and moulded surround; 2-leaf boarded door with blind fanlight; window flanking to right, cusped, arcaded rows carved in apex panel; ashlar finial. Body of the hall to right, advanced, with large 4-light window; apex panel detailed as above, and stone finial.

N ELEVATION: 5-bay; tall window to each bay, divided by buttresses

S ELEVATION: 4-bay gabled block adjoined to taller hall; M-gabled bays at centre, each with window; small bipartite windows to outer bays. Small-pane windows to W elevation; plate glass and square-pane glazing patterns in sash and case windows to S elevation.

Ashlar coped skews with bracketted skewputts and kneelers to main

gable. Graduated slates. Circular ridge ventilator on pyramidal, slate-hung base. Stacks to lower bays to S, with decorative cans. Decorative ridge tiles. Decorative cast-iron gutterheads.

INTERIOR: not seen (1990).

GATE, RAILINGS AND QUADRANT: fleur-de-lis cast-iron gate and quadrant railings on whinstone rubble, ashlar coped base.