Town House, High Street, Lochmaben

The Town House in Lochmaben, completed in 1723, originally served as a tolbooth. It underwent significant alterations and additions by architect David Bryce in 1867. The building is constructed of red ashlar stone, with a rusticated ground level up to the impost level. The main elevation, which faces south along High Street, features three bays, a square tower, and a central round-arched doorway. Above the doorway is a Venetian opening that contains a statue set in an alcove. The tower has a louvred, set-back octagon that supports a spire. The outer bays were originally single storey but were altered and raised by Bryce, who added windows set in ground floor arches, with a balustrade above on the first floor, and lions couchant at the corners.

Bryce also more than doubled the depth of the tolbooth, adding a bull-faced, gabled rear range that is slate-roofed and set forward from the original flanks. This new section features first-floor Venetian windows with leaded glass representations of Robert Bruce and William Wallace, along with eagle finials on the roof. Additionally, there are a pair of swagged cast-iron Adamesque lamp brackets beside the door, which are presumably also the work of Bryce.