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 Former Drill Hall and Drill Hall House, located on Old Bank Street in Golspie, was designed by architect Laurie Bisset in 1892. This symmetrical building features nine bays and is a single storey, approximately T-shaped in plan, with a two-storey tower. The listing excludes the former offices (now a house) to the east, the timber lean-to shed, and the brick free-standing building at the rear.
The drill hall is constructed in a picturesque, rustic style using vertically boarded timber. The prominent tower at the front has a pagoda roof and an open upper level. Lean-to aisles, which were originally an open veranda, extend along the north and west sides, while the rear retains its open veranda. Decorative iron finials adorn the apex of the tower and the small dormers, and the building features small pane glazing in timber windows with a corrugated iron roof.
At the rear, there is a two-storey stone structure that served as the armoury on the ground floor and the drill instructor's house above, which may date back to the 1850s. This structure is approximately square in plan, built from pink snecked, squared rubble with droved ashlar dressings. It has timber sash and case windows with 4-pane glazing, a grey slate roof, and coped ashlar chimney stacks.
The interior, observed in 2015, largely retains its late 19th century character. It features timber boarding throughout and a trussed timber roof in the hall, with double doors in the northeast gable and a raised dais at the opposite end. A timber viewing balcony overlooks the hall from the north side. The tower contains a small internal staircase leading to a first-floor room. The former armoury also showcases timber boarding and remnants of timber fittings for guns, with a first-floor room that includes a timber and cast iron chimneypiece.
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