Kirkintilloch Town Hall, Union Street, Kirkintilloch

Kirkintilloch Town Hall, located on Union Street, Kirkintilloch, was designed by Walker and Ramsay of Glasgow and built in 1905. Minor alterations occurred in 1911 and 1913, followed by extensive renovations in 1931, and an extension was added in 1959. This is a two-stage building with a basement, comprising a monumental, classical town hall displaying Baroque influences, a cupola, and a notably fine interior.

The external fabric is sandstone ashlar, with squared and snecked rubble to the sides and rear. The design incorporates a balustraded parapet, band courses, a mutuled eaves cornice with a blocking course, and an eaves course to the sides. Architraved surrounds feature stylised keystones, along with stone transoms and mullions.

The eastern, principal elevation features steps leading to three two-leaf timber doors, each with a plate glass fanlight, set within a bowed entrance bay. Above, three diminutive bipartite windows are punctuated by columnar mullions and a heavy mutuled cornice. A tall, set-back second stage contains three closely-aligned tall bipartites with single top lights. Decorative cartouche-type consoles, a cornice, and a stepped parapet are also present. Battered and canted returns feature carved cartouches. A polygonal, ventilating cupola is set back on the roof ridge, with a louvred roundel on each face, and a corniced, domed, and finialled roof. Flanking bays incorporate small tripartite windows on advanced single-stage wings, with balustraded parapets and bowed inner angles featuring small square lights. The bay to the right includes three small square basement windows, one of which is blocked. Set-back faces above have two closely aligned tall, narrow, keystoned lights. Later single-storey bays have been added, set back to the outer left.

The north elevation features a single-stage, balustraded bay to the left with two small basement windows, a timber door, followed by two vertically-aligned windows, and the main hall to the outer right, with two tripartite windows to the first stage and two nine-light transomed windows above. A lower projection extends to the outer right.

The south elevation displays a variety of elements to an altered façade, retaining two original nine-light transomed windows to a set-back face.

A brick extension is visible on the west, rear elevation.

The windows largely contain mottled glass within timber frames. The roof is covered in grey slates. Cast-iron downpipes are accented by decorative rainwater hoppers.

The interior retains a fine decorative scheme, including plain cornices, stone staircases (some cantilevered) with glazed brick dadoes, decorative cast-iron railings, and timber handrails. Several doors retain coloured glass panels. A foyer contains a timber-panelled screen surmounted by a fine leaded and coloured Art Nouveau style glass panel, akin flanking two-leaf doors and a small ticket booth with a cast-iron radiator. A galleried hall includes a timber floor, cast-iron columns, boarded and panelled dadoes, decorative plasterwork to the stage, a panelled gallery front with a clock, original theatre-type flip-up seats, and a compartmentalised ceiling.