Description

Dated 1730 and 1905. Core and tower, 1730, cupola, John
Boag, 1774, remodelled, W C Joass, 1902-5. Central rubble
built tower in 2 stages, upper slightly stepped back.
Entrance in centre with altered columned portico supporting
heavy stone 1st floor balcony with carved panels. Window
(formerly door at head of steps) opening onto balcony altered
1905. Tower with 1 small margined window with iron yett in
each south facing storey; balustrade (1905) and tall timber
octagonal cupola (1774) with pilastered tower stage, clock
faces in alternate facets with louvres above, ogee lead roof
with diminutive lead cupola and weather vane. 2-storey,
2-bay wings re-built 1905 with bipartite in each bay and
crowstepped dormer-heads. Return crow-stepped gable to Church
Street with re-set 1730 date stone in gable head. Slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

Former yett stands beside centre entrance.

John Boag, architect. Donald Morrison, square wright and

Donald McNeil, mason visited Forres, Moray in 1773 to view

tolbooth steeple then and subsequently prepared model "as a

plan for the same kind in this burgh (Town Council minutes,

Feb 1773).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Dingwall, High Street, Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17826966

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas