County Council Offices, York Place, Perth

The County Council Offices on York Place in Perth were designed by WM Mackenzie and built between 1834 and 1838, with significant extensions added by the Perth & Kinross Architectural Services Department from 1992 to 1994. The original structure is a large public library that was formerly a hospital, featuring a two-storey, 11-bay Classical design. The central three bays are taller and project forward, featuring a porte cochere, while the end bays are also taller and advanced. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with a channelled finish at the ground level. It includes a base course, a band course adorned with a wreath motif, an eaves course, a dentilled cornice, and a parapet. Below the upper storey windows are panelled aprons, and the windows in the end bays have pediments.

The central three bays feature a key-stoned round-arched porte cochere, with round-arched window openings above that include a central niche. The parapet is decorated with scroll motifs and a shell finial. The entrance features central panelled timber doors with a fan-glazed semi-circular fanlight above. The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is roofed with grey slates.

Inside, the entrance hall boasts a plaster vaulted ceiling and a tiled floor. The rest of the building was extensively modernised between 1992 and 1994 to create library space.

The boundary wall to York Place is a low, coped, channelled ashlar wall.