Memorial Hall, Leithen Road

The Memorial Hall on Leithen Road is a villa built in 1859, which has undergone later 20th century alterations and features a hall addition from 1922 designed by Todd and Miller. The building is a large, 3-bay, 2-storey, rectangular structure with multiple gables, and it adjoins a substantial 5-bay classical public hall with a piended roof at the rear.

The principal elevation of the Memorial Hall, facing east, has five bays with prominent corniced doorpieces in the outer bays and three tall pilastered windows with 28 panes in the central bays. It features a deep base course, a frieze decorated with paterae, a dentilled cornice, and overhanging eaves. The west elevation is simpler with five bays. The side elevation is roughly symmetrical and includes a central raised projection room with a piended roof and a simple cantilevered balcony. The main elevation is finished in smooth painted render, while the sides and rear have a wet dash finish. The windows are multi-pane timber sash and case, and the entrance doors are also timber. The roof is covered with small grey slates, concrete ridge tiles, and features cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the main auditorium has a curved ceiling, a stage, and a balcony at the rear. There is plain cornicing throughout, with decorative cornicing around the stage and six plaster ceiling roses. The doorways are corniced, and there is a wide concrete stair leading to the balcony, which has cinema-style seating, along with a smaller stair to the projection room.

The former villa is a 2-storey, 3-bay structure with an advanced central buttressed gablet that includes a clock, flanked by gabled eaves with breaking dormers. There is a later canted bay window on the left side at ground level. The principal elevation is constructed of coursed ashlar with margined quoins, while the sides are finished in painted render. It features an eaves course, beaked skewputts, and stone skews. The west gable has a corniced pilastered doorpiece. The windows are a mix of plain, 4-pane, and 6-pane glazing in timber sash and case. The roofs are slate, with cast-iron gutters and plastic downpipes.

Inside the former villa, it has been converted into office accommodation, but some notable Victorian detailing remains, including a geometric tiled floor in the lobby, a curved stone stair with cast iron balusters, and a secondary stair at the rear. There is decorative plaster cornicing and ceiling roses, as well as marble chimneypieces with cast-iron tiled inserts.