Burgh Hall, Burgh Hall Street, Glasgow

Burgh Hall, located on Burgh Hall Street in Glasgow, was designed by William Leiper in 1872 and features a suite of halls in the Francois Premier style. The building is two stories tall and has 13 unequal bays, with a simpler five bays at the eastern end. It is constructed from polished ashlar and snecked rubble for the side and rear elevations, and it includes casement windows.

The main front consists of two sections, each with four bays. The western bays feature a prominent entrance with an arched keyblocked doorway, sculpted spandrels, and an entablature adorned with triglyphs and disc metopes, topped by a pediment and parapet. The eastern bays form the main frontispiece, which is advanced and raised. The ground floor has two-light architraved windows with relief panels set on fluted strips above, inscribed with "Misericordia," "Justicia," and "Veritas." There is a cill band on the first floor, with six-light stone mullioned and transomed leaded lights, and an arched window in the center bay topped with a pediment above a triglyph frieze. The building features an eaves cornice and a blocking course, with a mansard roof that has brattishing and a slim columned bell tower with a bracketed balcony above.

The eastern section has a simpler keyblocked arched entrance in the western bay, with a cornice and short tripartite casements above, flanked by outer pilasters on the first floor. The first and third bays project slightly and contain four-light stone mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights, while the ground floor features geometric panelling at the frieze level and a continuous cill band on the first floor, with raised and pedimented windows. The hipped roof is raised to a mansard in the third bay, which includes a richly detailed, carved timber columned bell tower and corniced axial stacks, all covered by a slate roof.

An eastern addition consists of five asymmetrical and plainer bays, rising three stories. The first, third, and fifth bays are shallowly advanced and pedimented, with a round-arched door at the center and a variety of window designs.

Inside, the main hall features anta pilastered arches and a coved, barrel vaulted ceiling supported by pendant roof trusses. The hall includes geometric stained glass, timber balusters on the staircase with carved newels, and a marble-shafted column and respond hall screen. The lesser halls have coffered, coved ceilings and columned platforms.