Airdrie Market Building, 8-10 Hallcraig Street, Airdrie

The Airdrie Market Building, located at 8-10 Hallcraig Street in Airdrie, was designed by James Thomson in 1856. This former town market building is two stories high and features five bays with a symmetrical, bowed corner design. The exterior is constructed of painted ashlar sandstone and includes a pedimented parapet over the central bay, channelled pilasters, a base course, a ground floor cornice below a dividing band between the floors, a continuous cill course to the upper storey, and a projecting cornice. The upper storey windows are adorned with shouldered, moulded architraves.

On the principal elevation, the five-bay bowed façade is symmetrical, with a broad entrance in the central bay and a stone mullioned bipartite window above it, which is topped by a blocked parapet and a segmentally-arched pediment. Above this pediment is a free-standing coat-of-arms for Airdrie, flanked by twin-bracketed coped stacks. The outer double bays have regular fenestration.

The southeast side elevation features six bays with regular fenestration and a crowstepped nepus gable at the center of the three-bay block to the right, which includes a garage entrance on the ground floor outer right. The northwest side elevation has five bays with small square windows on the upper storey. The northeast rear elevation is obscured by an adjacent building.

The building has plate glass sash and case windows, grey slate roofing with lead flashing, coped skews, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior has been largely refurbished for use as a bingo hall and amusements arcade.