St Andrew's Church Hall, Brooke Street, Dumfries

St Andrew's Church Hall, located on Brooke Street in Dumfries, was built in 1872 and underwent alterations by John Bowie in 1907. This former school, now serving as a church hall, features a near-rectangular, 7-bay Gothic design. The south gable has a traceried window, and the building is adorned with gabletted, shouldered angle buttresses and semi-octagonal stair towers on the east and west elevations, each topped with cast-iron cross finials. The pointed-arch windows and gabletted vents on the roof add to its Gothic character. At the north end, there is a 3-bay, 2-storey presbytery with an attic and basement. The structure is constructed from squared, snecked sandstone with droved and polished ashlar dressings, and features hoodmoulds over the windows of the gable and stair towers, with the hoodmould of the ground floor window of the stair towers continuing as a string course. The bays are separated by shouldered buttresses.

On the southeast elevation, the former entrance, now walled up, has a roll-moulded pointed-arch surround with elongated pilasters and a traceried fanlight. Flanking this are bipartite pointed-arch windows with crocketted Y-tracery, and above is a large window with geometric tracery and ball-stops on the hoodmould. The gable has gabletted skews and a cross-finial at the apex.

The east elevation features two slightly advanced shouldered chimney breasts flanking the stair tower, although the stacks have been removed. There are two lancet windows to the left of the tower and three Y-traceried bipartite windows to the right.

The west elevation has replacement timber boarded doors leading to the stair tower and the outer-right bay. There is a slightly advanced chimney breast with a stack to the right of the tower, while the left side has blind bays and a late 20th-century addition on the outer left.

Inside the hall, there is timber panelling to the dado and splayed window jambs. A former timber panelled balcony at the south end has been walled in to the ceiling and is supported by cast-iron columns. The flooring consists of timber floorboards, and there is a false ceiling.

The boundary wall is made of ashlar-coped snecked sandstone and is topped with decorative cast-iron railings in a Gothic style. The plain ashlar gatepiers have cushion caps, although the central gateway is walled up. To the outer right, there is a single gabletted Gothic gatepier featuring carved stonework that depicts a shepherd's crook and a bishop's mitre.