Dingwall Sheriff Court

at Dingwall Sheriff Court, September 1922]] The Ross and Cromarty Commissioners of Supply served as the main administrative body for the county from 1667 until 1890 when the county council was created and took over most of the commissioners' functions. In the early 19th century, the commissioners met at 63–64 High Street but, in the early 1840s, they decided that a bespoke courthouse should be commissioned. The site they chose had been formed by filling in an artificial pit with hard rubble. The new building was designed by Thomas Brown II in the Gothic Revival style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1845. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of nine bays facing onto…