Former Drill Hall and Drill Hall House, Old Bank Street, Golspie is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1991. Drill hall. 1 related planning application.

Former Drill Hall and Drill Hall House, Old Bank Street, Golspie

WRENN ID
swift-threshold-moss
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 November 1991
Type
Drill hall
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

The building was designed by the architect Laurie Bisset in 1892 and is a symmetrical 9-bay, single storey, approximately T-shaped in plan drill hall with a 2-storey tower. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following is excluded from the listing: the former offices (now a house) to the east, the timber lean-to shed and brick free-standing building at the rear.

The hall is designed in a picturesque, rustic style and is constructed of vertically boarded timber. The large tower projects from the front of the building and has a pagoda roof with an open upper level. There are lean-to aisles, originally an open veranda, to the north and west sides of the building while at the rear the open veranda remains in situ. There are decorative iron finials on the apex of the tower and on the small dormers, with small pane glazing in timber windows and a roof of corrugated iron.

The 2-storey stone structure at the rear, which served as the armoury on the ground floor and drill instructor's house above, may date from the 1850s. It is approximately square in plan, built of pink snecked, squared rubble with droved ashlar dressings. It has 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows with a grey slate roof and coped ashlar chimney stacks.

The interior was seen in 2015 and largely retains its late 19th century scheme. There is timber boarding throughout the building and a trussed timber roof in the hall, with double doors in the northeast gable and a raised dais, at the opposite end. There is a timber viewing balcony on the north side overlooking the hall. The tower has a small internal staircase and a room on the first floor. The interior of the former armoury also has timber boarding and evidence of timber fittings for guns. A first floor room has a timber and cast iron chimneypiece.

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