[2] After finding this arrangement unsatisfactory, court officials decided to commission a dedicated courthouse: the site they selected was on the south side of Whytescauseway.

[3] The new building was designed by James Ross Gillespie in the Scottish baronial style, built in rubble masonry at a cost of £9,000 and was officially opened by Sheriff Aeneas Mackay on 21 May 1894.

[6] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto Whytescauseway.

[8][9] An annexe to the sheriff court, incorporating two new criminal courtrooms as well as a new custody suite, was opened in the former police station on St. Brycedale Avenue on 29 July 2020.

[10] The building on Whytescauseway remains the main venue for hearings of the Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.