Boys Brigade Hall, Head Street, Beith

This is a two-storey, five-bay building of 1784, originally built as a church following a separation from the Established church, and later used as a United Presbyterian Church. It subsequently became a United Free Church before ceasing to be used for religious purposes and serving as a dance hall, Orange Lodge, cinema, and factory. The building is now principally used by the 1st Beith Boys' Brigade. The design is in a restrained classical style, although the loss of the original window glazing affects its character.

The building is rectangular with a piend roof, and a 20th-century brick addition to the west. All window openings are now blocked, but retain four tall, round-arched windows with keystones. A central, projecting porch has narrow side lights and a shallow segmental-arched head with a central pilastered, round-arched window above, and outer pilasters supporting a pediment. The remains of an apex stack are visible. The exterior is constructed of random sandstone rubble with ashlar margins, and the porch is rendered with polished ashlar dressings. A lean-to addition extends from the rear. The roof is covered with grey slates.

Internally, the building has been altered. A timber-panelled gallery remains to the northeast, now filled in above. A cantilevered pulpit is located above the entrance. A kingpost roof structure is present.

Low, coped rubble walls run along Head Street, incorporating delicate fleur-de-lis cast-iron railings and square, droved ashlar gatepiers with domed caps. Cast-iron gates provide access. Further coped rubble boundary walls enclose a burial ground to the sides and rear, which contains interesting late 18th and 19th-century monuments. The rubble walls were rendered until the late 20th century. The building is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1858.