[1] The building was commissioned by the Reverend William James West, who lived at White Park, near Brookeborough in County Fermanagh, as a market house for the local people.

[2][3] The building was designed by William Deane Butler in the neoclassical style, built in coursed stone and was completed in 1839.

The central bay was surmounted by an open pediment with a clock in the tympanum.

[6] The arcading on the ground floor was infilled and the building was converted for use as a civic meeting place in 1889.

[9] It subsequently became the home of the newly-established Ederney Community Development Trust,[10] which provides and promotes a range of activities within the building.