County Buildings, 21, 23, 25 High Street, Kinross

The first county hall in Kinross-shire was a modest structure in the High Street which was completed in around 1600. It was primarily used as a courthouse and was repaired to a design by the architect and local member of parliament, Robert Adam, in 1771. The design involved a prominent bowed frontage facing south down the High Street. In the 1820s, the local sheriff decided that a more substantial courthouse was needed: a suitable site, further north along the High Street, was selected. The new building was designed by Thomas Brown of Uphall in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £2,000 and was completed in 1826. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with…