Village Hall And Library, Gibblestone Road, Scalloway

The Village Hall and Library on Gibblestone Road in Scalloway was built in 1902 and features a freestyle architectural design. The building consists of a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical main section to the south, which includes a crenellated circular entrance tower on the east gable. At the rear, there is a large five-bay hall that extends north, with modern additions on the east and west elevations. The walls are made of harl-pointed rubble, accented with stugged and droved yellow sandstone dressings, and sit on a stugged squared and snecked sandstone battered base course. The principal range showcases long and short quoins around the windows.

On the south elevation, which is the principal front, the design is symmetrical with windows in each bay at ground level. Above, there is a large Venetian window with a continuous cill at the first floor, rising into a wide gablehead that breaks the eaves. The west elevation is also symmetrical and features a two-bay gable end of the principal range on the right, with a five-bay hall elevation extending to the left, displaying regularly spaced windows that are partially obscured by a modern lean-to addition.

The east elevation has a single window at the first floor on the left side of the gable end of the principal range. The stugged sandstone ashlar entrance tower projects to the right, featuring a modern half-glazed entrance door set into a projecting doorpiece to the south, with a narrow window centered above it. There is also a window at an intermediate height to the east, a crenellated parapet, and a flagpole mounted on a concrete plinth between the tower and the modern addition that obscures the hall elevation on the right.

The building has modern glazing throughout and a modern grey slate roof, topped with a ship weathervane on a square metal clock tower that sits on a slated plinth at the ridge of the principal range. The south gable features corniced ashlar skew-copes, while the east and west gables have crowstepped skew-copes rising to three-flue corniced gablehead stacks with octagonal cans.

Surrounding the building to the south and east are cement-rendered and lined dwarf walls topped with triangular concrete copes, which are surmounted by finialled cast-iron railings. The entrance gatepiers are also cement-rendered, featuring pyramidal caps on the southwest and east sides.