Town House, Hall Street, Lochgelly

The Town House on Hall Street in Lochgelly was built in 1909 by T Hislop Ure, as noted on a plaque in the vestibule. This two-storey building has an L-shaped plan and is situated on a corner site, featuring free Renaissance details. It includes a circular turret that projects from the first floor over a polygonal ground floor angle, with a panelled drum that breaks the eaves, topped by an ogee leaded roof and a wrought-iron apex finial. The principal elevations are constructed from stugged and snecked cream sandstone rubble, with polished ashlar dressings, while the subsidiary elevations are harled. The roof has a shallow pitch and is slated, with a western gable stack.

The building's windows are multi-pane sash and case style, with four-pane upper sashes and six-pane lower sashes.

On the south (entrance) elevation, there are four asymmetrical bays featuring a base course, eaves cornice, and a blocking course that rises as a stepped gable behind the pedimented entrance bay. The entrance is off-centre in the slightly advanced third bay, framed by a deep cavetto-channelled ashlar doorpiece. Above this doorpiece are clasping pilasters with recessed and decorated panels, and a cartouche at the apron panel over the doorpiece. The first floor has a bipartite window set in a pediment above the doorpiece, with a single light window to the right and a single window and bipartite window to the left at both ground and first floors. The windows feature simple keyblocked architraves with apron panels; those on the ground floor have segmental hoodmoulds over voussoirs, while those on the first floor have corniced cills.

The east elevation also has four bays, with alternating single and bipartite windows in the same architraves as the south elevation. The second bay is slightly advanced and features a semi-circular pediment with a stepped blocked gable-head behind, similar to the south elevation.

The rear elevations are plain and harled, with margined openings.

Inside, the council chambers on the first floor retain much of their original decorative scheme. This includes three-quarter-height corniced panelling (currently covered with paper imitating oak as of 1991), consoled and pedimented doorcases, and centre bays on the east and west walls set in pilastered architraves with semi-circular pediments adorned with heraldic painted decoration. Below are blocked fireplaces and a lugged picture panel at the centre, along with an elaborate cornice and a coved, panelled, and compartmentalised ceiling. The original table and chairs are still present, along with three-panel shutters.