51 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

This single storey and rectangular-plan, purpose-built former volunteer drill hall building dates to around 1870 with later alterations, including cinema additions dating from 1936.

The symmetrical, three-bay and gabled principal elevation to Church Street is constructed in ashlar sandstone with a channelled base course and a round-arched and keystoned doorpiece to the centre. Above is a large, partly-boarded circular window with a keystone hoodmould. There is a small rectangular window with a moulded surround at the gablehead. The gable head is bracketted with a corniced chimney stack at the apex. The outer bays have tall round-arched windows with chamfered reveals, and bracketted and moulded entablatures with panelled frieze. The roof is slated with ashlar coped skews and there are timber doors.

Internally, there is some surviving 1930s cinema decoration, including pilasters with gilt Corinthian capitals, foliate cornicing and a coombed ceiling. There is a balcony at the western end with diamond moulding detail and a coffered ceiling underneath. There are some Art-Deco ceiling lights and wall sconces throughout.