[1] The building was commissioned in July 1807 by the guilds of the local merchants who wanted Dunfermline to become the county town of Fife.

[4] The new building was designed by Archibald Elliot in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1811.

The central bay, which was slightly projected forward, featured a square-headed doorway with a fanlight flanked by a pair of lancet windows on the ground floor, and a Venetian window on the first floor, all flanked by two pilasters supporting an entablature with triglyphs and a modillioned pediment.

[9] It was then converted to become the "Spire Inn" in 1817, and operated as a public house for three decades before becoming the home of the Dunfermline Sheriff Court as "County Buildings" in 1850.

It went on to become a job centre in 1993, and then was converted back to a public house again as "The Guildhall & Linen Hall", under the management of Wetherspoons, in July 2012.