After the Grangemouth area was advanced to the status of small burgh in 1930,[1] civic leaders, who had previously met in Grangemouth Town Hall, decided to commission dedicated municipal buildings for the council, while allowing the town hall to operate as an events venue.

[2] The new building was designed by Robert Wilson and David Tait in the Italianate style, built in ashlar stone and was officially opened on 30 October 1937.

[3][4][5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of nine bays facing onto Bo’ness Road.

The central section of three bays, which was projected forward, featured a square-headed doorway, flanked by a pair of casement windows, which supported a balcony.

[7] King George VI, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth, visited the municipal buildings in June 1946,[8] and Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, met with civic leaders at the municipal buildings in July 1955.