Burgh Chambers, The Cross, Dunblane

Burgh Chambers, located at The Cross in Dunblane, was built between 1899 and 1901 and designed by R M Christie. This two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan town hall features a gabled Jacobethan style with crowstepped gables. The building is constructed from bull-faced red sandstone with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings on the principal (west) elevation, while the sides and rear are made of rubble with stugged yellow sandstone dressings. It includes long and short quoins, a base course, and a continuous cill string course at the first floor.

The west elevation is three-bay with a finialled gabled bay on the left. It has a round-arched entrance in the center flanked by fluted pilasters and a moulded archway with a hoodmould. The outer section features the words 'BURGH CHAMBERS' carved in raised letters, along with a wrought-iron lantern bracket and a replacement two-leaf panelled timber door with a fanlight. To the left, there are a pair of round-arched windows with a continuous hoodmould and cill band; to the right, a mullioned bipartite window with a large central mullion and a hoodmould that has a raised semicircular panel at the center. Above, a chimneyhead gable sits over a single window at the center of the first floor. There is also a mullioned tripartite window with a hoodmould to the left and a mullioned bipartite window breaking the eaves in the finialled gablehead to the right.

The east elevation features harled, 20th-century lean-to additions at the ground level, with a central stair window on the first floor and two additional windows to the left and right. The south elevation has the outer wall of a former jail, which was demolished in 1963, projecting at the ground floor, along with two narrow inserted windows to the right. A carved stone panel with a moulded architrave displays the coat-of-arms of John Chisholm of Cromlix to the left of multi-pane timber frame windows (some with top hoppers) on the ground floor of the principal elevation, while the first floor has replacement PVCu windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, featuring coped gablehead stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods with plain hoppers.

Inside, the entrance vestibule has geometric tiles, but the ground floor has been largely modernised. The timber balustrade of the staircase remains intact only in the upper sections. The principal first-floor room, known as the 'Marriage Room', was refurbished in the early 20th century and includes two timber fireplace surrounds and an Art Nouveau dado.