South Lanarkshire Council Offices, Victoria Street, Larkhall

Dated 1896, with later alterations and additions, the South Lanarkshire Council Offices are a single-storey, five-bay symmetrical building, rectangular in plan, with a central advanced gabled bay. Rear extensions create an L-shaped footprint. The building is constructed of stugged and snecked cream sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, featuring a base course and eaves course. Chamfered reveals, stone mullions, and aproned cills are present on the windows, with a columnar central mullion, corniced cill, and entablature to the main central window. Long and short quoins are also incorporated into the design.

The north-western elevation, facing Victoria and Principal Streets, features a recessed four-light bow window in the central bay. Above this window is an inscribed frieze reading 'COUNCIL CHAMBERS', and a recessed, corniced and pedimented square date panel sits within the pediment above. A rounded finial crowns the gablehead. A stop-chamfered doorpiece with stone mullions is positioned to the left of the centre, sheltering a replacement timber panelled door with a rectangular fanlight. A three-light window is present in the outer left bay, and a similar window in the outer right bay. Steps lead to another stop-chamfered doorpiece to the right of centre, which contains a two-leaf timber panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above.

The north-east elevation, facing Percy Street, is irregular, with nine bays grouped as 7-1-1. The original two-bay section is to the right, featuring an asymmetrical gable with a window at ground level, and a gablehead stack above. A window is set in the lower, flat-roofed bay to the left, with a coped wallhead, a raised section to the left, and a ball finial above. A brick addition of seven bays extends to the outer left, containing modern two-leaf doors and four high-set windows, flanking a large window to the outer left. A window is also present in the bay to the right of the brick block.

The south-western side elevation displays an asymmetrical gable with a window set to the right at ground level, and a gablehead stack above. To the right is a lower, flat-roofed blank wall with a shaped cope.

Replacement uPVC windows are present. The roof is covered with grey slate, with slate on the addition. Ashlar coped stacks rise from the north-east and south-west elevations, and coped skews with blocked skewputts are present on the north-east and south-west. The central gable has coped skews with downswept, decorative features. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and hoppers are also in place.

A boundary wall, gate, gatepiers, and railings are situated to the front. Cream sandstone gatepiers of square plan with channelled detail are sited to the left of centre, topped with tapered and truncated caps featuring raised, shouldered panels. A pair of taller, red sandstone piers are located to the right of centre. A low wall of stugged and snecked cream sandstone, with a curved ashlar cope, runs around the front of the building. Art Nouveau railings with stylised heads and a foliate panel on the pedestrian gates are also present.