The Morton Hall, 123 Main Street, Newmilns

Arthur Harrison, 1896. Single storey, 6-bay, roughly rectangular-plan, gabled Jacobethan-style public hall with lower 2-bay section to side, advanced gabled porch, 2 crowstep-gabled windows, copper vent to roof and mid-20th century flat-roofed brick addition to rear. Red Ballochmyle sandstone ashlar. Base course, cill course, eaves course. Buttresses dividing bays to front and rear; transomed, mullioned bipartite windows with arched lights in moulded rectangular margins.

SOUTH (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: crowstep-gabled porch advanced to left: 2-leaf timber panelled door with 3-light fanlight; tablet above inscribed THE MORTON HALL in raised letters; Jacobethan style pilastered architrave supporting armorial device with scrolled pediment above; decorative side buttresses. Transomed, mullioned windows to right and 2 centre bays; slightly taller windows breaking eaves to inner left and right bays with crowstepped gables and shouldered side buttresses. Lower wing to right with timber panelled door and canted bay window breaking eaves.

EAST ELEVATION: shouldered stack to centre of wing with flanking transomed lights; small bipartite to gable apex of main building; brick addition to right.

NORTH (REAR) ELEVATION: 5 bays divided by buttresses; advanced gabled bay to right with bipartite window; flat-roofed extension in front.

WEST ELEVATION: end gable with bricked-up door in roll-moulded architrave to left. Predominantly square-pane leaded lights. Ashlar-coped skews with skewputts. Corniced stack with red clay cans. Graded grey slate with terracotta ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: trussed ceiling and timber stage to main hall; Jacobethan style chimneypiece to council room; timber panelled doors throughout.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped sandstone boundary wall to South.