New Town Hall, 53 St John Street, Whithorn

The New Town Hall, located at 53 St John Street in Whithorn, was designed by David Henry from St Andrews in 1885 and is built in the Tudor style. The structure is made of squared and snecked whinstone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a base course, stone mullions, transoms, and chamfered reveals.

On the east elevation, there is a gabled porch that is recessed to the left, containing a hoodmoulded pointed-arch doorway with foliate label stops, set within a chamfered and moulded surround. The doorway has a two-leaf boarded door with a blind fanlight above it. To the right of the porch, there is a window with cusped, arcaded rows carved in the apex panel, topped with an ashlar finial. The main body of the hall is advanced to the right and features a large four-light window, with the apex panel detailed similarly to the adjacent window and also topped with a stone finial.

The north elevation consists of five bays, each with a tall window separated by buttresses. The south elevation has a four-bay gabled block that is attached to the taller hall. The central M-gabled bays each contain a window, while the outer bays have small bipartite windows. The west elevation features small-pane windows, while the south elevation includes sash and case windows with plate glass and square-pane glazing patterns.

The building is topped with ashlar coped skews that have bracketted skewputts and kneelers on the main gable, and it is covered with graduated slates. A circular ridge ventilator sits on a pyramidal, slate-hung base, and there are decorative stacks on the lower bays of the south elevation, complete with decorative cans. The roof also features decorative ridge tiles and cast-iron gutterheads.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1990. Additionally, there is a fleur-de-lis cast-iron gate and quadrant railings set on a whinstone rubble base with an ashlar coped top.