[3] Within a few years, council leaders decided that they also needed a community events venue; the site they selected for the new town hall was on the north side of the High Street.

The new town hall was designed by William Cumming Joass in the Italianate style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1871.

[7] The town hall was initially used for concerts and theatre performances but, in 1934, it was leased to the Invergordon Picture House Company and a programme of conversion works were carried out, to a design by Alexander Ross & Son, so that it could be used as a cinema.

[8] Following local government re-organisation in 1975, it passed into the ownership of Ross and Cromarty District Council; it closed as a cinema in 1984 and was converted for use as an arts centre in 1988.

In January 2019, the council announced that, in the context of the significant cost of future refurbishment work which it estimated would be at least £200,000, it would consult on the possible disposal of the building.