Alloa Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court

The first judicial building in the county was Clackmannan Tolbooth in Main Street in Clackmannan which dates from the 17th century. However, by the early 19th century, the tolbooth was in a dilapidated state. Court hearings were moved to the old Assembly Rooms in Alloa in 1822, which has since been demolished, before moving to Ochil House in 1842. This arrangement proved inadequate and, in the early 1860s, the Commissioners of Supply decided to commission a bespoke courthouse. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of seven bays facing onto Mar Street. The centre bay featured a doorway with a hood mould flanked by buttresses and brackets supporting a heavy balcony with corner piers…