Town Hall, Hamilton Road, Motherwell

The Town Hall on Hamilton Road in Motherwell was designed by John Bennie Wilson and built between 1886 and 1887. This two-storey, four-bay building features a rectangular plan and exhibits Queen Anne architectural detailing. It includes a five-stage clock tower at the eastern corner and a gable at the center. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins and detailing, featuring a base course, continuous cill and lintel courses, an eaves course, stone mullions and transoms, and chamfered reveals around the openings.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, stone steps lead to a central two-leaf timber door topped by a semicircular fanlight. This entrance is flanked by paired pilasters on raised plinths, which terminate in brackets that support a balustraded first-floor balcony. There is a blind arcade and pilastered bays on either side of the entrance, with tripartite windows in the outer bays. The second storey has a central bipartite window flanked by paired fluted pilasters and cameo panels, with outer pilasters that end in urn finials. Above this, there is a pilastered, pedimented gable featuring the inscription "MOTHERWELL TOWN HALL ERECTED 1886-7" beneath an ornamented 1886 datestone and an oval oculus in the tympanum. The outer bays also have bipartite windows. The clock tower on the outer right has a semicircular-headed door at its center, with brackets supporting a balustraded balcony above and a single narrow window on the second stage. The third stage features paired pilasters flanking paired arrowslits, while the fourth stage has a carved panel beneath a square window between the pilasters. The clock face is supported by a corbelled balustraded balcony, with pilasters rising to a cornice and corner ball finials. The tower culminates in a pilastered octagonal drum topped with a finialled ogeed dome.

The northwest (rear) elevation is obscured by later additions. The southwest (side) elevation has regular fenestration on the first floor. The northeast (side) elevation features a two-stage, octagonal-plan tower with a conical roof on the outer left bay, alongside later two-storey additions to the right, which have a piended roof covered with grey slates.

Inside, the principal hall is double-height and has been refitted as a modern nightclub. The roof features a small ogee domed lantern at the ridge. The building has double-glazed replacement windows, grey slates with lead flashing, and cast-iron rainwater goods.