Town Hall, Milnathort

Watt of Kinross, dated 1853, extended to E 1897. Imposing 2-storey, 3-bay S (tower) elevation and 5-bay W (hall) elevation, L-plan, piend-roofed civic building straddling Back Burn and overlooking town centre crossroads, with elegant 3-stage Gothic revival clock tower, weather-vane finialled lead spire and good interior decoration to hall. Squared and snecked rubble to principal elevations, roughly squared to lesser elevations, with ashlar quoins and raised margins. Band and corbel courses, balustraded parapet, 2-stage angle buttresses, and voussoired pointed-arch openings to tower.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: tower (projecting from broad gabled elevation at S) with deep-set 2-leaf

timber door and decoratively -astragalled pointed arch fanlight behind early ironwork gas lamp, datestone above; regularly-fenestrated 5-bay elevation (openings mostly blocked) with timpany gable and shouldered wallhead stack to W; piended E elevation with semicircular-arched tunnel over burn.12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, pointed-arch windows decoratively astragalled. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks, lead or aluminium covered skews.

INTERIOR: hall with raised stage incorporating pilastered boarded timber lining and good rinceau decoration probably dating from 1897.