The site they selected was on the west side of Bank Street, facing the town hall.

[5] It was designed by James Thomson in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in around 1858.

The central section of three bays featured a two-storey tetrastyle portico formed by four Doric order columns supporting an entablature with triglyphs and a modillioned pediment.

[7] As well as being used as a courthouse, the building also hosted public events: a regimental banquet of the 7th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps was held there in 1865.

[11] In the early 1970s, a modern courthouse was erected in Graham Street to accommodate hearings of the Airdrie Sheriff Court,[12][13] and, in June 2019, the justice of the peace court relocated to a site just opposite the new courthouse in Graham Street.