Town Hall, Milnathort

The Town Hall in Milnathort, designed by Watt of Kinross and dated 1853, was extended to the east in 1897. This impressive civic building features a two-storey, three-bay south elevation with a tower and a five-bay west elevation, forming an L-shape and topped with a piend roof. It straddles the Back Burn and overlooks the town center crossroads. The building showcases an elegant three-stage Gothic revival clock tower, complete with a lead spire topped by a weather-vane finial, and has well-decorated interiors in the hall.

The principal elevations are constructed of squared and snecked rubble, while the lesser elevations are roughly squared. It includes ashlar quoins and raised margins, as well as band and corbel courses, a balustraded parapet, two-stage angle buttresses, and pointed-arch openings that are voussoired on the tower.

The tower, which projects from the broad gabled south elevation, features a deep-set two-leaf timber door and a pointed arch fanlight with decorative astragals behind an early ironwork gas lamp, with a datestone positioned above. The regularly-fenestrated five-bay elevation has most openings blocked and includes a timpany gable and a shouldered wallhead stack to the west. The piended east elevation has a semicircular-arched tunnel over the burn. The windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern, and the pointed-arch windows also have decorative astragals. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the stacks are coped ashlar with lead or aluminium-covered skews.

Inside, the hall features a raised stage with pilastered boarded timber lining and attractive rinceau decoration, likely dating from the 1897 extension.