[1] The site they selected on the south side of Stirling Street had previously been occupied by a building known as Miller's Court.

[3][4] The new building was designed by John Thomson in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and completed in 1912.

[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Stirling Street; the central section of five bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a doorway flanked by pilasters and brackets supporting a segmentally arched pediment with the burgh coat of arms in the tympanum; on either side of the doorway were oculi with garland surrounds.

[1] There was a Distyle in antis in the central three bays on the first floor with Corinthian order columns and pilasters supporting a large entablature and a balustrade; there was a sash window with the burgh coat of arms in the pediment in the central bay and sash windows with open pediments on either side of the Distyle in antis.

[9] After an extensive programme of refurbishment works, which was financed in part by the Heritage Lottery Fund and carried out by Graham Construction to a design by Austin-Smith:Lord at a cost of £3.5 million, the building re-opened as arts and community events venue in 2012.