Dr Black's Memorial Hall, 22 Bank Street

Robert John Macbeth, 1907-8. 2-storey, 5-bay, symmetrical church meeting hall in domestic Queen Anne style. Built for St Columba High Church (see separate listing) also on Bank Street. Squared and snecked pink sandstone with pale sandstone dressings. Base course; string course; bracketed eaves. Chamfered margins and mullions to large bipartite windows. Long and short quoins.

Substantial, 2-leaf timber entrance door to centre; carved name stone above with heavy stone canopy and carved stone brackets. Four carved stone plaques at first floor, set between windows. Regular fenestration pattern with moulded surrounds to large bipartite windows.

2 piend-roofed stair outshots to rear (NW) elevation with the larger outshot to centre. Some later infill and emergency stair addition with lean-to roof.

Large, multi-pane glazing pattern to timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; 9 panes to top sash and 12 pane to bottom sash; single glazed timber sash and case windows to rear. Traditional slate roof laid in diminishing courses; pair of ventilators to ridge with swept pyramidal caps; one with decorative cross finial. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative ties.

INTERIOR: central hallway with 2-leaf glazed vestibule doors leading through to broad public stair and upper landing; ornamental cast-iron balustrades; timber handrail with scrolled newels. Further Simple plaster cornicing to principal rooms; half timber panelled walls. Two doors to ground floor hall to left ; two ground floor reception rooms to right. Moulded timber fireplaces. Large hall (50ft by 35 ft) to front of first floor with exposed timber roof structure; timber floor.