Newmains Police Station, Manse Road, Newmains

Cullen, Lochead and Brown, 1905. 2-storey, 5-bay, symmetrical, bowed, rectangular-plan, Scottish 17th century style Police Station on gusset site; bowed central block with flanking gabled pavilions. Bull-faced white sandstone with ashlar margins.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tripartite window with stone mullions to centre of ground floor, flanking panelled timber entrance doors, bead moulded surround; broad ashlar band between floors, inscribed COUNTY CONSTABULARY, terminated with framed heraldic shields above entrances; 3 windows to upper storey. Advanced, 2-storey, canted windows with parapets to flanking shouldered gable end bays; ashlar panels between floors of canted bays.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced shouldered gable bays to left and right, windows to gablehead and returns, short balustrades to outer edges, battered wallhead chimneys to inside returns. Single storey advanced gabled bay to centre.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to right, small window to ground, tall narrow window to gablehead, coped skews with round 'daisy' pattern skewputts, small spire to right. Single storey balustraded, advanced bay to centre, narrow window, door to return, narrow window to main wall above; blank bay to left.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror of NW.

Sash and case windows of various size. Grey slate roof, lead flashing, 2 coped, bull-faced stacks to central block, battered stack to central rear wing; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: original, fitted wooden enquiry desk in reception otherwise modern.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: bowed wall to NE, returns adjoining edges of principal elevation. Round corner piers with shallow dome caps linked by low coped wall and railings; low coped wall with railings to returns. Bull-faced sandstone, ashlar coping.