The central bay featured a porch containing an arched doorway with a hood mould surmounted by a small stone mansard roof with brattishing.

[1] The new building was extended to the northwest, to a design by Alexander Ross and Robert John McBeth, to create a long single storey prison wing, in 1892.

[1] The old courthouse ceased operating as a prison at that time, and was converted to serve as the local offices of the Scottish Home Industries Association in 1900, before being adapted for residential use.

[7] On 26 April 1941, the court was the venue for the trial of four men accused of unloading whisky and barrels of oil from the cargo ship, SS Politician, which had run aground off the coast of the island of Eriskay in 1941.

[8] The four men were found guilty and fined, in a case which formed the basis for the novel, Whisky Galore, written by Compton Mackenzie and published in 1947.