Town Hall And Police Station, 15 And 17 Castle

The Town Hall and Police Station, located at 15 and 17 Castle, was designed by Allan Stevenson and completed in 1888, with a mid-20th century addition that may include some earlier materials. This single-storey building with an attic is styled in the Scots Renaissance and Queen Anne architectural styles. It features a broad gabled hall with pedimented windows at the front and flying buttresses on the north side. The main entrance is to the left, with office rooms and the police station set back to the rear and left of the entrance. The mid-20th century extension is positioned to the left of the entrance, in front of the police station. The building is constructed from red sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are made of random rubble. It has a base course and a discontinuous eaves course.

The entrance features a deeply recessed, two-leaf timber panelled front door, which is framed by a roll-moulded, chamfered architrave topped with an open pediment that contains a blind armorial device. The words "TOWN HALL" are displayed in raised letters above the door. Behind the entrance is a recessed section with a round-pedimented window in the attic. To the left of the entrance is a scrolled gable in the Queen Anne style, with a lower two-storey extension filling the re-entrant angle. To the right of the entrance is a three-bay gable for the hall, featuring tripartite mullioned windows at the centre on both the ground and first floors, with an open pediment above the upper window. The outer bays have single windows with semicircular pediments. A datestone from 1888 is located at the gable apex, flanked by scrolls and a small round pediment. The north elevation of the hall has four half-pointed arch shouldered buttresses, while the rear has a blind asymmetrical gable and an irregularly fenestrated piend-roofed section to the right. The south elevation has fairly regular fenestration of mullioned windows.

The building's windows are timber sash and case, featuring small-pane glazed upper sashes and plate glass in the lower sashes. The skews are capped with ashlar. The roof is covered with graded grey Scottish slate and decorative red terracotta ridge tiles.

Inside, there is a stone staircase in the entrance hall, which has barley-twist iron balusters and a compartmented ceiling. The hall includes a balcony, a stage, and diagonally-laid floorboards. The public areas, including the hall and staircase, are adorned with timber-boarded panelling up to the dado level, and there are some timber panelled interior doors.