Northern Meeting Park Pavilion Building And Boundary Walls, Ardross Street

The Northern Meeting Park Pavilion, built between 1864 and 1865, is a two-storey, 13-bay grandstand designed in a rectangular plan with a symmetrical gabled appearance. It features an Italianate street frontage that gives it a domestic look, and an open elevation with tiered seating facing the meeting ground, accommodating 1,000 seats. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar dressings and has overhanging eaves.

On the north elevation facing Ardross Street, there is a 15-bay façade. The central entrance consists of a two-leaf timber-panelled front door with a fanlight and mullioned side lights, topped with a bracketed cornice and pediment. On either side of the entrance, there are five bays with regular fenestration at the ground floor and blind gablets above, featuring short ridge stacks. The slightly advanced end bays contain two-leaf timber panelled doors set in corniced round-arched architraves with prominent keystones and fanlights, complemented by a corniced string course and round-arched windows above.

The south elevation facing the meeting ground presents a 13-bay open area for seating, supported by cast-iron columns. Between these columns are ornamental timber fretwork panels topped with highly decorative cast-iron cresting. The seating consists of six tiers of raked timber benches, with panelled boxes located at the rear. The gabled end pavilions have round-arched doorways at the ground level and double round-arched windows with prominent keystones on the first floor. There are also late 20th-century single-storey, flat-roofed extensions on the outer left and right sides.

The pavilion features large-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with tooled, coped ashlar stacks and assorted clay cans. The roof is covered with grey slates and lead flashing, and the rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

Surrounding the pavilion is a high boundary wall made of random rubble with ashlar coping. The entrances are marked by stop-chamfered, pyramidal-capped gatepiers, some of which date from the 20th century, and there are wrought-iron gates dated 2000.