Galloway Library Including Boundary Walls, 50 Main Street, Colinsburgh

Charles Davidson of Paisley, 1903 (dated). Well-detailed single storey and attic, 3-bay library and flatted dwelling closing irregular terrace to E, with Scots Baronial and Wrenaissance references combining to make an important and unusual contribution to Colinsburgh's Main Street. Interior contains rare retention of little-altered reading room. Squared and snecked bull-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Moulded cill course, deep frieze and cornice forming attic cill course and eaves course. Pedimented, barrel-vaulted porch with columns flanking Gibbsian doorpiece under heavily mutuled cornice; segmentally-arched and oculus windows, stone-balustraded balcony between corbelled roundels, keystone and relieving arch. Stone and timber transoms and mullions.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: asymmetrical elevations. Entrance elevation to S with balconied gabled bay projecting at left; porch in re-entrant angle at centre with steps up to broad 2-leaf panelled timber door below relief carved 'GALLOWAY LIBRARY' and dated cartouche in semicircular pediment; 6-light transomed window to right.

Multi-pane glazing patterns over 2-pane and plate glass lower sashes in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates with terracotta ridge tiles. Banded and coped ashlar stacks with clay cans. Ashlar-coped skews and flat skewputts. Cast iron downpipes with decorative fixings.

INTERIOR: much good interior detail retained including ribbed and vaulted ceilings, decorative cornicing, good joinery work including architraved and pedimented doorpieces, timber panelling and boarded dadoes. Timber fire surrounds with tiled cheeks and cast iron grates, brass door furniture and coat hooks. Porch with decoratively-tiled floor and walls, 2-leaf screen door. Boarded timber toilet cubicle with Shanks & Co china basin and timber seat. Panelled reading room with timber fire surround and cast iron grate, clock in pediment over door.

BOUNDARY WALLS: dwarf saddleback-coped squared rubble and high random rubble boundary walls.