Memorial Hall, Leithen Road

1859 villa with later 20th century alterations and 1922 hall addition by Todd and Miller. Large 3-bay, 2-storey, rectangular-plan, multi-gabled former villa adjoining large 5-bay classical piended-roof public hall to rear.

MEMORIAL HALL: 5-bay principal (E) elevation with large corniced doorpieces to advanced outer bays and 3 tall pilastered 28-paned windows to central bays. Deep base course, frieze decorated with paterae; dentilled cornice and overhanging eaves. Plainer 5-bay elevation to W. Roughly symmetrical side elevation with central raised piended roof projection room with simple cantilevered balcony. Smooth painted render to main elevation with wet dash to side and rear. Multi-pane timber sash and case windows, timber entrance doors; small grey slates, concrete ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: main auditorium with curved ceiling, stage and balcony to rear. Plain cornicing with decorative detailed cornicing around stage and 6 plaster ceiling roses. Corniced doorpieces. Wide concrete stair to rear leading to balcony with cinema style seating; further small stair to projection room.

FORMER VILLA: 2-storey, 3-bay former villa with advanced central buttressed gablet with clock flanked by gabled eaves breaking dormers; later canted bay window to ground left. Coursed ashlar to principal elevation with margined quoins, painted render to sides. Eaves course, beaked skewputts and stone skews. Corniced pilastered doorpiece to W gable. Mixture of plain, 4-pane and 6-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Slate roofs, cast-iron gutters and plastic downpipes.

INTERIOR: converted to office accommodation but some good Victorian detailing survives including geometric tiled floor to lobby and curved stone stair with cast iron balusters and secondary stair to rear. Decorative plaster cornicing and ceiling roses and marble chimneypieces with cast-iron tiled inserts.