Town Hall, High Street, Crieff

1. 2-storey and basement, 4-bay, crowstepped hall with tall 2-stage tower sited on ground falling steeply to S. Squared and snecked red sandstone rock-faced rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings. Base and moulded eaves courses. Pointed- and shoulder-arched windows; relieving arches. Chamfered reveals.

N (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: crowstepped gable with tall window to centre and dominant round gablehead stack on gabletted base.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: tower (see below) projecting in bay to left of centre and narrow blank bay to outer left; bays to right of centre each with square-headed window below relieving arch at ground and pointed-arch window at 1st floor breaking eaves into crowstepped gablet. Slightly set-back, low lean-to crowstepped bay beyond to right with door and rounded outer right angle corbelled to square at eaves.

TOWER: engaged 1st stage with broad 2-leaf timber door below carved panel bearing Crieff coat-of-arms and moulded dividing course at eaves course height giving way to single window at base of largely blank 2nd stage with clock face high-up in carved stone Gothic-detailed surround to each elevation, all surmounted by moulded cornice broken by gabletted louvered openings and pyramidal spire with decorative cast-iron weathervane.

S (CORNTON PLACE) ELEVATION: variety of elements to lower elevation including projecting crowstepped gable with dominant gablehead stack and chamfered left angle corbelled to square at low eaves; higher recessed face of hall with window in crowstepped gable.

Decoratively-astragalled margined glazing pattern to pointed arch windows except that to S with 8-pane glazing pattern; 4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows elsewhere. Grey slates. Coped and shouldered ashlar stacks. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts.

INTERIOR: winding stone stair leading to 1st floor Council Chamber with groin-vaulted. Marble panel dated 1838, commemorating Sir Patrick Murray of Ochtertyre, founder of 'Strathearn Agricultural Society'.