The structure, which accommodates the local area offices for Perth and Kinross Council, is a Category B listed building.

It was primarily used as a courthouse and was repaired to a design by the architect and local member of parliament, Robert Adam, in 1771.

[3] In the 1820s, the local sheriff decided that a more substantial courthouse was needed: a suitable site, further north along the High Street, was selected.

The new building was designed by Thomas Brown of Uphall in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £2,000 and was completed in 1826.

[6][7] A war memorial, in the form of a column surmounted by a cross and mounted on a pedestal, which was intended to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who died in the First World War, was unveiled outside the building in the presence of Lord Constable on 1 January 1921.