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A Category A Listed building Link (Archive Link ) ,the distinctive Town Building was funded by public subscription and was constructed in 1815-16 to a design by prominent Scottish architect David Hamilton Link (1768-1843). It is described as a two storey ashlar classic with tetrastyle G Doric portico. The copper weather vane is a six foot model of a fully rigged sailing ship, which sits 150 feet above sea level.

Erected in what was a harbourside location (the grass in the foreground is where the Wet Dock stood), the building now sits in an ever decreasing piece of parkland at the entrance to the town centre. The well loved building lay unused for a few years before being extended and converted for community use in the mid 1990s and now includes a library on the ground floor.

See the weather vane...

NS3274 : Crow's nest?
NS3274 : Port Glasgow Town Building weather vane