The Goth, 50 West Main Street, Armadale

Dated 1924 (see Notes), incorporating earlier fabric. Single storey, 5-bay Gothenburg public house with 3-stage Baroque entrance tower. Stugged and bull-faced ashlar with raised, tabbed margins and ashlar dressings. Deep base course and eaves course. Keystoned, round-headed doors and bipartite windows under flat lintels.

TOWER to S: round-arched openings to S, E and W of single bay, portico style 1st stage with square-plan prostyle columns and moulded capitals. Cavetto cornice giving way to tall 2nd stage with pilastered and segmentally-pedimented panel to S inscribed ?ERECTED IN MEMORY OF MALCOLM MALLACE PRESIDENT APHS LTD 1901 TO 1922?, pediment dated ?1924?, and clock face below cornice with raised centre; small round-headed opening below clock face to each return. Slightly setback 3rd stage with carved scrollwork angle stones giving way to octagonal louvered belfry.

S (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Projecting tower (see above) to centre bay masking moulded doorpiece with granite step and ?WINES SPIRITS ALES? over door; windows with dividing colonettes and carved screen aprons to flanking bays.

Doorways to outer right and left (latter converted to window).

Plate glass glazing in fixed windows. Graded grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with ashlar-coped skews.

INTERIOR: modern.