Dobbie Hall, Main Street, Larbert

A & W Black, Architects, Falkirk. 1901. Plain, 6-bay deep,

stugged ashlar hall with piended slate roof set behind

exhuberant 2-bay deep neo-Baroque front. 5-bay front

elevation with end bays advanced. Ground floor-chanelled

ashlar with deep ashlar base, moulded cill course and

cornice. Plain ashlar 1st floor with moulded cill course and

rusticated quoins, the former carried round the hall at the

rear. Central door set in arched Gibbsian surround with

flanking Ionic pilasters and curved broken pediment. 1st

floor tripartite window above with triangular pediment and

upper cartouche set between engaged Ionic columns and

surmounted by large curved broken pediment at wallhed. Deep

bracketted main cornice and balustrade parapet. All windows

2-pane sashes, outer ground floor bays with engaged pilasters

in reveals. 1st floor window bays pedimented, outer bays with

cartouche and flat side pilasters, inner bays with lugged

architraves.

Interior: Entrance hall with cloakrooms at ground floor,

upper lesser hall at first floor, all with original detailing

and plasterwork.

Main Hall: 5 Ionic columns support curved end. U-shaped

gallery with original seating and elaborate neo-Baroque

front. Lavish proscenium arch with engaged Corinthian columns

and upper initialled cartouche.

Richly decorated coffered ceiling.