Town Hall, 73 High Street, Coldstream

The building was commissioned by Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home as a mechanics' institute and town hall for the town. It was designed by James Cunningham of Greenlaw in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1863. Ownership of the building was initially placed in the hands of the board of trustees of the mechanics' institute which was chaired by the bailie. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto the High Street. The central bay featured a doorway with a rectangular fanlight flanked by two narrow sash windows and surmounted by a cornice. On the ground floor, the outer bays were fenestrated by sash windows with…