Publication Account

Date 1996

Event ID 1018369

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018369

A site for new County Rooms designed by William Burn, 'immediately behind the Town House, and connected with the Sheriff Court Room', was granted to the county by the town council in 1819 at a low feu-duty. The W front, which faces Kirkgate, is of six bays, the end ones being slightly advanced. These end-bays contain segmental archways, the S one enclosing the entrance-doorway and the other opening to a pend. The ground-floor windows are round-arched within recesses of similar form whereas the upper storey has large rectangular windows. The entrance-hall, whose ceiling was supported on four timber columns, and the elaborate staircase to the S, were removed in 1962-3, when the first-floor committee-room and county hall were combined.

Information from ‘Tolbooths and Town-Houses: Civic Architecture in Scotland to 1833’ (1996).