Falconer Museum, Tolbooth Street, Forres

The Falconer Museum, located on Tolbooth Street in Forres, was designed by A and W Reid and built between 1868 and 1870 in the Italian Renaissance style. The building is two storeys high and features a three-bay entrance on the north side, with a six-bay elevation facing Tolbooth Street. It is constructed of finely stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, while the southern and eastern flanks are made of rubble.

On the north facade, there is a shallow advanced centre bay that includes a paved Roman Doric columned portico. Above this, a pilastered and shafted round-arched tripartite window is supported by broad outer pilaster strips. The frieze above is inscribed with "Falconer Museum," and it features a pediment that encloses a portrait bust and is topped with an anthemion. The outer bays contain round-arched pilastered windows on both floors, with shell decoration and a portrait-mask keystone at the ground floor, while the first-floor windows are recessed in panels.

The west elevation mirrors these details, with two centre bays that are advanced and a panelled parapet. All first-floor windows on this side are bipartite, and the building is topped with a piended slate roof.