The site they selected was on the south side of School Green opposite the parish church.

It was designed by John Harris of St Andrews in the Scottish baronial style, built in snecked masonry at a cost of £2,400 and was officially opened on 16 September 1872.

There was short flight of steps leading up to a first-floor doorway, with a rectangular fanlight, which was flanked by Doric order pilasters supporting an entablature and a panel containing a carving of an anchor.

The main assembly hall then became a community events venue and also saw use as a location for weddings and civil partnership ceremonies.

[4] Works of art in the town hall include two paintings by the locally-born artist, Robert Fowler, one of Windsor Castle,[8] and one depicting Thomas Black, a local surgeon who drowned in the mud in Anstruther harbour.