Village Hall And Institute, Meikleour

Smart, Stewart & Mitchell, dated 1930. Single storey, asymmetrical, roughly L-plan, Arts and Crafts village hall and institute. 3-bay hall to left with central, advanced, clock tower. 3-bay institute to right with canted end bays and advanced entrance porch. Concrete drydash render with red sandstone ashlar margins. Raised, chamfered base course, cornice. Some simple bargeboarding; hoodmoulded windows to hall; raised cills to institute. Notable timber panelled interior.

HALL: W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Central advanced, 2-stage canted bay with segmental-arched moulded doorpiece with inscribed date keystone and with 2-leaf boarded timber entrance door with iron hinges. Clock face above. Flanking bipartite windows with chamfered mullions.

S elevation: 6 bays; buttressed. Window openings breaking wallhead with piended dormers. Advanced piended roof bay to right and later flat-roofed extension to far right.

INSTITUTE: W (ENTRANCE ELEVATION): to left of hall. 3-bay, largely symmetrical; advanced central piended porch with recessed 2-leaf panelled timber entrance door. Broad, canted bay corners.

Predominantly metal multi-pane casement windows to institute and diamond lead-paned windows to hall with coloured glass. Piended roofs; polygonal piended roofs over canted bays. Grey slates, cast iron rainwater goods. Single wallhead stack.

INTERIOR: (seen 2011). Original interior and room layout largely intact. Institute with open timber boarded ceiling with timber arch braces, springing from stone corbels. Timber panelling and timber benching to walls. Hall with round-arched ceiling, timber panelling and low timber stage. Part-glazed doors.