Keltneyburn Hall, Keltneyburn

Keltneyburn Hall is a late 19th-century building, likely completed by 1900. It may incorporate an earlier cottage. Constructed in the Arts and Crafts style, the hall originally served as a reading room with caretaker’s accommodation, as evidenced by Ordnance Survey maps. The building is currently derelict. It is a single-storey structure with a rear wing, forming an L-shaped plan. The exterior is harled with decorative details in red sandstone ashlar. The roof is covered in grey slates with overhanging eaves and barge boards. Chimneys are harled and have coped stacks.

The front (east) elevation is a three-bay design. A decorative two-leaf timber door is centrally positioned, with the roof sweeping down over it, supported by timber brackets on ashlar corbels. A small window adjoins the caretaker’s accommodation to the right, while a tall mullioned and transomed window is located to the left, extending beyond the eave line. A shaped dormerhead with a circular relief panel and an ashlar ball finial tops the window. The south gable features an ashlar relief panel at the gablehead, depicting a shield incorporating the Saltire.

A piended wing extends at the rear, projecting to the right of centre. A transomed window provides light to the hall on the west side, and boarded timber additions are located to the south. A piended porch is situated in the north re-entrant angle, and a ridge ventilator is present.

Inside the hall, stained pine panelling runs to cornice height, incorporating bookcases with glazed leaded doors. The ceiling is coved, plastered, and panelled, featuring a central hexagonal timber rose design with sunflower detailing and decorative square ventilators. Windows have decorative leaded glazing at the upper level. The caretaker’s accommodation retains its original kitchen range with a timber panelled chimney-piece.

The building appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1900, identified as a Reading Room. It was likely built by a local landowner.