Village Hall And Institute, Meikleour

The Village Hall and Institute in Meikleour, designed by Smart, Stewart & Mitchell and completed in 1930, is a single-storey building with an asymmetrical, roughly L-shaped plan, reflecting the Arts and Crafts style. The structure features a three-bay hall on the left, which includes a central, prominent clock tower, and a three-bay institute on the right, characterized by canted end bays and an advanced entrance porch. The exterior is finished in concrete drydash render with red sandstone ashlar margins, and includes a raised, chamfered base course and cornice. There are some simple bargeboards, hoodmoulded windows on the hall, and raised cills on the institute.

The west elevation of the hall is symmetrical, featuring a central, advanced, two-stage canted bay with a segmental-arched moulded doorpiece that has an inscribed date keystone and a pair of boarded timber entrance doors with iron hinges. Above the entrance is a clock face, flanked by bipartite windows with chamfered mullions. The south elevation has six bays and is buttressed, with window openings that break the wallhead, featuring piended dormers. There is an advanced piended roof bay to the right and a later flat-roofed extension at the far right.

The entrance elevation of the institute, located to the left of the hall, is largely symmetrical with three bays. It features an advanced central piended porch with a recessed two-leaf panelled timber entrance door and broad canted bay corners. The institute predominantly has metal multi-pane casement windows, while the hall features diamond lead-paned windows with coloured glass. Both sections have piended roofs, with polygonal piended roofs over the canted bays, grey slate roofing, and cast iron rainwater goods. There is a single wallhead stack.

Inside, as seen in 2011, the original interior and room layout remain largely intact. The institute has an open timber boarded ceiling with timber arch braces that spring from stone corbels, along with timber panelling and benching on the walls. The hall features a round-arched ceiling, timber panelling, and a low timber stage, with part-glazed doors.