Town Hall, Crieff Road, Aberfeldy

James M MacLaren (London), dated 1889, incorporating Old Breadalbane Academy (circa 1840) at rear. Broad-gabled 3-bay, single and 2-storey, L-plan Town Hall in Free Style with H H Richardson inspiration and with loggia and oversized ventilator. Harled with rock-faced red sandstone margins and quoins and polished dressings; squared and snecked local chlorite-slate rubble to rear. Cill course. Voussoirs; stone mullions.

MAIN HALL:

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: quadrant walls flanking broad-gabled elevation with 3-arched loggia with decorative ironwork gates, carved stone (see Notes) immediately to left and set-back deeply-voussoired doorway with 2-leaf vertically-panelled timber doors, windows in flanking bays; horizontal 5-light window set into plain-friezed panel in gablehead.

S ELEVATION: tall single storey, 6-bay elevation with deep multi-band base course of red rock-faced rubble abutting broad cill course. 2-storey bays of Lesser Hall projecting at left (see below). 4 large transomed bipartite windows to centre and left bays, large slate-hung ogee-roofed ridge ventilator with decorative cast-iron weathervane to centre above; catslide roof over narrow projecting stair tower in penultimate bay to right with small square window to 1st and 2nd stages, and timber door with cast-iron lamp bracket on return to left; outer right bay with single stage piend-roofed projection.

N ELEVATION: largely mirrors S elevation.

Leaded multi-pane timber-transomed windows. Graded grey slates. Overhanging eaves with decorative bargeboarding.

LESSER HALL:

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 4-bay, single and 2-storey elevation. Advanced gable to right with large window to ground and smaller window to 1st floor, carved panel (see Notes) immediately to left at ground and steps up to angled doorpiece with 2-leaf timber door at outer right. 2 bays to centre each with large window at ground and smaller 1st floor window breaking into stone dormerhead. Single storey broad-gabled bay with large bipartite window to left.

S ELEVATION: variety of elements including single storey harled bays projecting at ground, louvred opening in set-back gablehead to right and piended bay to left.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey bay to left with window to right and small porch to left at ground, altered window in gablehead; single storey piended bay with 2 windows to right.

12- and 24-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Banded and coped square-section ashlar stacks (some grouped) with some cans. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding.

INTERIOR: gallery and hammerbeam roof to Greater Hall. Plain cornices, panelled timber shutters and soffits to Lesser Hall.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rock-faced rubble quadrant walls and random rubble boundary walls.