Former Drill Hall, Princes Street

This 2-storey, 3-bay, approximately square plan, Scottish Baronial style former drill hall offices was designed by Ebenezer Simpson and built in 1892. It has been altered at various times including 1911 and 1935. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: the hall at the rear.

These former drill hall offices are built of squared rubble with finely droved ashlar dressings and are situated in a conspicuous position at the upper end of Princes Street. The southwest (entrance) elevation has a crowstepped wallhead gable between broad twin tourelles and a moulded doorcase at the top of a short flight of steps. The doorcase is surmounted by a carved panel inserted in an arched aedicule. The carved letters '4 V B' (4th Volunteer Battalion) are in the pediment and there is a crest of the regiment (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) with a boar's head and a wild cat in the panel below flanked by the carved letters 'D M F'. The triangular pediment above the central first floor window bears the date 1892. The base of the tourelles are battered and there is a cill course with carved water spout features and an eaves course. The window architraves are mainly chamfered and the ground floor windows are mainly two-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, while the first floor windows are 16-pane glazing in the upper sash and a single pane lower sash. There are grey slates on the roof and corniced chimney stacks with red clay cans.

The interior was seen in 2015. In the ground floor front rooms some late 19th century details survive including curved timber architraves to the windows with shutters and curved plaster cornices.