Municipal Buildings, 8-10 Corn Exchange Road, Stirling

The Municipal Buildings at 8-10 Corn Exchange Road in Stirling were designed by J Gaff Gillespie of Salmon, Son & Gillespie in 1908, with later extensions by Walter H Gillespie, the Stirling Burgh Architect, between 1965 and 1968. This building showcases a Scots Baronial style with a tower and Tudor Collegiate blocks, having been selected through a competition. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar.

The southeast block is two stories high with an attic and features seven bays. It has a cill course at the ground level, battered cills on the first floor, and a bracketed crenellated parapet. The windows include stone mullions and transoms, with gablet coping and finialled gabled dormerheads. The round-arched, keystoned openings on the ground floor are complemented by tall bipartite windows on the first floor. The central gabled entrance bay is advanced, featuring a bowed oriel that is corbelled out over the door at the first floor. There are four bipartite windowed gabled dormers behind the parapet.

The southwest block exhibits a Scots Baronial style, rising three stories with an attic. It is framed by round towers on the three-bay south elevation, which are adorned with giant Corinthian columns. The west elevation includes a five-story tower with an octagonal angle turret, a two-story oriel, and four-story arched recesses. The towerhead is set back and features steeply gabled faces with Venetian openings, clock faces on the gableheads, and a lead cupola that rises from the roof intersection.

The building has fixed plate glass windows in the round-arched windows of the two-story block, while the remaining timber windows feature small-pane glazing patterns in casement, hopper, and sash and case forms. The roof is slate, and the leaded cupola has a finial. A flagpole is situated on the five-story tower. The interior was not seen in 1997.