Galloway Library Including Boundary Walls, 50 Main Street, Colinsburgh

The Galloway Library, built in 1903 to designs by Charles Davidson of Paisley, is a well-detailed, single-story building with an attic, comprising a three-bay library and a flatted dwelling that closes an irregular terrace to the east. It combines Scots Baronial and Wrenaissance architectural styles, making a significant and unusual contribution to Colinsburgh's Main Street. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced rubble, with polished ashlar dressings. A moulded cill course, a deep frieze, and a cornice form the attic cill course and eaves course. A pedimented, barrel-vaulted porch, featuring columns framing a Gibbsian doorpiece under a heavily mutuled cornice, provides access. The entrance elevation, facing south, includes a balconied gabled bay projecting to the left; the porch is situated in the re-entrant angle at the centre, with steps leading to a broad, two-leaf panelled timber door. Above the door is a relief carving of "GALLOWAY LIBRARY" within a semicircular pediment, also displaying the date. A six-light transomed window is located to the right. Windows are timber sash and case with multi-pane glazing patterns, featuring two panes over plate glass in the lower sashes. The roof is covered with grey slates and terracotta ridge tiles, accompanied by banded and coped ashlar stacks with clay cans, ashlar-coped skews, and flat skewputts. Cast iron downpipes with decorative fixings are also present.

The interior retains much original detail, including ribbed and vaulted ceilings, decorative cornicing, and good quality joinery work, such as architraved and pedimented doorpieces, timber panelling, and boarded dadoes. Further interior features include timber fire surrounds with tiled cheeks and cast iron grates, brass door furniture, coat hooks, and a decoratively-tiled floor and walls in the porch, alongside a two-leaf screen door. A boarded timber toilet cubicle contains a Shanks & Co china basin and a timber seat. The reading room features a timber fire surround, a cast iron grate, and a clock positioned within a pediment above the door.

The property is surrounded by dwarf, saddleback-coped squared rubble and higher random rubble boundary walls.