Victoria Hall, High Street, Cromarty is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 May 2016. Drill hall.

Victoria Hall, High Street, Cromarty

WRENN ID
rooted-zinc-sage
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 May 2016
Type
Drill hall
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

The building was designed by Andrew Maitland and Sons in 1887 with a small extension added to the east before 1938. It is a single storey, rectangular plan, neo-Baroque former drill hall with a 3-bay principal elevation and 6-bay side elevations. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: the flat-roofed and rendered extensions to the southeast and southwest elevations.

Victroia Hall is built of pink stugged sandstone with yellow polished ashlar dressings. There are distinctive, Gibbsian style surrounds to the windows. The principal (northwest) elevation is flanked by tall, square buttresses with banded rustication and topped with ball finials and there is a pair of entrance doors recessed in round arches. Above the entrances is a wheel window with a clock at the centre. In the gablehead is a plaque in a trefoil niche inscribed 'The Victoria Hall 1887'. To the left and slightly set back is a pitched roof extension in a similar style to the hall with a round arched entrance and finialled buttress.

There is fixed-pane glazing in timber windows on the principal elevation and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows on the side elevations. The roof is piended with grey slate.

The interior was not seen in 2015. Photographs taken in May 2015 show some elements of the late 19th century interior scheme still survive, such as timber panelling on the lower part of the walls of the hall. At the south end of the hall is a raised platform.

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