The new building was designed by Charles and Leslie Ower in the Renaissance style, built in red brick with stone dressings and was completed in 1885.

There was a wide flight of steps leading up to a central doorway with a rectangular fanlight which was flanked by pairs of brackets supporting an entablature.

[5] A four-bay extension to the west, intended to accommodate a public library, was designed by the same firm in a similar style and completed in 1913.

[1] The locally born novelist, J. M. Barrie, attended the town hall to receive the Freedom of Kirriemuir on 7 June 1930: he was presented with a silver casket containing a scroll recording the award,[6] and returned to the town hall to open a bazaar on 26 August 1933.

[12] In April 2017, a plaque was attached to the town hall to commemorate the life of the locally born soldier, Private Charles Melvin of the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the First World War.