It houses the Tirurangadi Taluk Office since the post-independence Malabar District or British-era Madras Presidency.

[1] Tirurangadi was the capital of Cheranad taluk under the British Raj, which was the epicenter of the Khilafat movement and Malabar Rebellion (Moplah revolt) in 1921.

[2][3] The building was known as the Hajur Kacheri (Huzur Office) under the British, and was one of the major administrative centers of the post-independence British-era Madras Presidency.

During the Khilafat Movement, the Mappila warriors, under the leadership of cleric Ali Musliyar and Variyam Kunnath Kunjahammed Haji (V K Haji), captured the taluks of Eranadu and Valluvanadu from the British and established their own rule and turned the building into their administrative headquarters where they had the court, administrative section and even the office for the issuance of passports.

[1] The building premises has the graves of British officers who had laid down their lives in the 1921 Moplah Revolt[4] This includes that of Lt. William Rutherfoord Johnstone, Private F. M. Eley, Private H. C. Hutchings and William John Duncan Rowley who was the Assistant Superintendent of Police from Palghat who was killed at the outbreak of the Rebellion on 20 August 1921 at the age of 28.