[1] The first municipal building in the town was a medieval tolbooth which stood on the south side of the Eddleston Water near the Bridgegate and which dated back to the 15th century.

[4] The second municipal building was a structure known as The Steeple which stood on the north side of the High Street adjacent to Cuddy Bridge and which was completed between 1488 and 1496: it served as the town jail and meeting place of the burgh council until the mid-18th century.

[7] The fourth and current municipal building on the south side of the High Street started life as a domestic property in the 16th century.

The remodelled structure was designed by John Paris in the Scottish baronial style, built with a stucco finish and was officially opened on 8 August 1859.

[1] A memorial to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who died in the First World War, designed by Burnett Napier Henderson Orphoot in the form of a hexagonal pavilion with an ogee-shaped roof, was unveiled in the courtyard in 1922.