[1] The tower has clock faces near the top, and a steep pyramid spire, with louvered lucarnes, and ball finials on each corner and the peak.

Above the door is an armorial panel, which may be eighteenth-century in date, and above that is a window with a yett, from which is suspended a set of jougs.

[4] There has been a tolbooth on the site of the current building since at least 1711, when two bells were cast for the tower by Robert Maxwell of Edinburgh.

[1] An engraving of around 1798 shows the structure of the time, with a square tower much like the current one, but with a narrow spire rising above a crenellated parapet.

[1] The building was remodelled in 1875 by the architect Francis Armstrong of Dalbeattie,[4][6] and it was cement rendered in 1878, making it difficult to interpret its earlier history,[1] but it is likely that some of its existing structure dates from the eighteenth century, perhaps as early as 1711.