Hamilton Parish Church Halls, 20 Strathmore Road, Hamilton

Dated 1886. 2-storey, L-plan, large church hall. Pink stugged and snecked sandstone rubble, steeply pitched green slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles. Roll moulded windows, 12-pane fixed glazing; moulded wallhead course; crowstepped gables, flat-coped dormerheads; louvred ridge ventilator with finialled ogival roof; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

N ELEVATION: gable with various windows advanced to right; flat- and pentice-roofed bay advanced from left re-entrant angle, 2-leaf door to left re-entrant elevation with moulded lugged doorpiece, pulvinated frieze and pediment; 2 windows to ground floor left, cross-window breaking through eaves with dormerhead, inscribed panel to far left 'EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE, THEY LABOUR IN VAIN THAT BUILD IT. October 1886'. E GABLE: 2 doors to ground floor centre (door to left blocked), fire escape door to 1st floor left with steel stairs, paired architraved windows to 1st floor centre with pediment.

S ELEVATION: 5 windows to ground floor, 2 alternate bipartites and cross-windows breaking through eaves with dormerheads, coped wallhead stack to left.

W ELEVATION: gable to right, 2 windows to ground floor, tripartite to 1st with large segmental pediment and oculus; bay to left, window to ground floor, 2 to 1st.

INTERIOR: not seen.

GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: 3 corniced ashlar gatepiers to Leechlee Street, 2 sets of wrought-iron gates, railings to Strathmore Street.