Joint Cadet Centre, High Street, Forres

Designed by Charles C Doig in 1909-10, this drill hall comprises a 2-storey with gables breaking wallhead, 3-bay front block with a double height hall behind and a later single storey, rectangular plan rifle range adjoining the rear. It is constructed in rock faced sandstone with ashlar margins. The central bay of the principal elevation is slightly advanced and the gablehead has a carving of a stag's head and scroll with the inscription 'GUIDICH 'N RICH' over another, larger scroll with the inscription '6TH BATTN SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS'. The bay to the right of the centre has bipartite windows with a stone mullion and there is a blank shield in the gablehead. There is a base course and string course between the ground and first floor, and the gables are shouldered with cavetto moulded skewputts. The rifle range (built after 1938) is constructed in rubble stone, with a rendered gable facing North Road and has a corrugated roof and ventilators. There are two brick lean-to extensions to the rear of the drill hall and the east elevation of the rifle range.

The windows are predominantly a 4-pane upper sash over plate glass in timber frames. The roof is pitched and slated and there are coped wallhead stacks, straight skews and moulded skewputts. The rainwater goods are predominantly cast iron with decorative brackets.

The interior, seen in 2015, comprises offices in the front block, with a staircase with turned timber balusters and newel posts, and a hall to the rear with a timber boarded ceiling supported on metal trusses. The hall and circulation spaces have timber boarding to the dado rail. The roof of the rifle range to the rear is supported on timber trusses.