Municipal Buildings, 8-10 Corn Exchange Road, Stirling

J Gaff Gillespie of Salmon, Son & Gillespie, 1908; later extensions, Walter H Gillespie of Gillespie, Stirling Burgh Architect, 1965-8. Scots Baronial with tower and Tudor Collegiate blocks. Won in competition. Sandstone ashlar. 7-bay SE block with cill course at ground, battered cills at 1st floor, bracketed crenellated parapet; stone mullions and transoms, gablet coping to wall and finialled gabled dormerheads.

SE BLOCK: Tudor collegiate, 2-storey and attic, 7-bay. Round-arched, keystoned openings at ground and tall bipartite windows at 1st floor. Gabled entrance bay advanced at centre with bowed oriel corbelled out over door at 1st floor. 4 bipartite windowed gabled dormers behind parpapet.

SW BLOCK: Scots Baronial with 3-storey and attic engaged, round towers framing 3-bay S elevation with giant Corinthian columns. 5-storey tower to W elevation with octagonal angle turret, 2-storey oriel, 4-storey arched recesses, towerhead set back with steeply gabled faces and Venetian openings, clock faces to gableheads, lead cupola rising from roof intersection.

Fixed plate glass windows to round-arched windows of 2-storey block, small-pane glazing patterns in timber windows of remainder, in casement, hopper and sash and case form. Slate roof. Leaded cupola with finial. Flagpole to 5-storey tower.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.