The Baird Institute, 3 Lugar Street

R S Ingram, 1891. Single storey and basement, crow-stepped, multi-gabled, Scots Baronial purpose-built museum, situated on sloping site with distinctive octagonal 2-stage bartizaned entrance tower. Squared and snecked red sandstone with ashlar margins. Deep base course. Moulded, stepped string course to tower. Canted gable to E. Some tripartite window openings with stone mullions.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: principal elevation to N with entrance tower to left with steps leading to 2-leaf, 6-panel timber entrance door with chamfered architrave and glazed rectangular fanlight. Corbelled, crenellated parapet above with crenellated bartizans with arrow slits.

Predominantly 9- over 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped gable and wallhead stacks. Moulded skew putts. Some basement windows bricked-up.

INTERIOR: original floor-plan largely intact. Internal porch with tesserae tiled floor and 2-leaf timber and glass swing doors to right. Segmental archways to hall. Timber flooring. Some rooms with simple cornicing, timber dado panelling and one with very simple classical marble fire surround. Some working timber shutters. Glass and timber doors with glass sidelights and timber architraves.