Former Burgh Chambers, 7 Collier Street, Johnstone

The Former Burgh Chambers, located at 7 Collier Street in Johnstone, was built in 1887 and designed by architect Charles Davidson. This two-storey building features a baronial style, constructed from snecked and stugged cream sandstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings. The street-facing side is nearly symmetrical, with a central advanced bay that includes a segment-headed doorway adorned with a moulded head and hoodmould.

Above, there is a balustraded parapet supported by paired heavy corbels, with end dies topped by ball finials. The first floor features crow-stepped chimney gables, with the upper parts corbelled. The flanking bays at ground level contain bipartite windows with roll-moulded architraves, and the outer doors are designed to resemble a central door. A battered base course and a cornice separate the ground and first floors.

The first floor has single windows that break the eaves, designed as pedimented dormers, with moulded cills and an eaves course that forms hoodmoulds below the pediments, which are decorated with facetted timpani and ball finials at the corners. The ground floor windows are boarded and painted with astragals, while the first floor windows feature 2-pane lower sashes and 9-pane upper sashes, with lying panes. The roof is covered with Scotch slate and has crow-stepped gables surmounted by chimneys that are coped similarly to the central one. To the right, there is a first-floor link overhead, supported on a corbelled lintel with segment-headed, pedimented single slit windows. A wrought-iron gate is also present. The interior has not been seen.