Traill Public Hall and Reading Room
Date 20 April 1993
Event ID 899367
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/899367
Single storey gabled reading room and cottage, 5-bay, grouped 3-2, lower bays of cottage to right. Squared, snecked and stugged stone with ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises. READING ROOM: 3 bays to left with pedimented and pilastered door to centre, with fanlight (blocked), with 'AMT' carved in flowing script above. flanked by broad gabled panel to left with 5-light bowed window, ashlar aproned with stone mullions and half-conical roof, quatrefoil in gablehead; flanked to left by narrower gabled panel with pedimented window, oval panel in gablehead carved with shield and motto. Graded grey slate roof. Stone finials to gableheads. Ashlar coping to steep gablehead skews and ashlar stacks.
The reading room was gifted to the town in the will of Miss Margaret Traill, and opened on New Year's day 1867. Caldwell described it as 'a boon and ornament to the locality'. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
