Denny Town House

The first municipal building in the town was a public hall in Glasgow Road which was commissioned by a local businessman, David Anderson, in 1889. It was leased to the burgh council for municipal use in 1903. However, in the late 1920s, burgh leaders decided to commission a purpose-built town house and the public hall was let out as a cinema. The new building was designed by Robert Wilson of local architects, Strang & Wilson, in the Scottish baronial style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1931. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Glasgow Road. The first section of two bays, which was slightly projected forward, was fenestrated by two…