Town Hall, 104 High Street, Burntisland

The first municipal building in Burntisland was a tolbooth which dated back to 1598. Several local Covenanters were incarcerated in the tolbooth during the Killing Time in the early 1680s and, later, some members of the Catholic Church were imprisoned there after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. By the early 1840s, despite being repaired several times, the tolbooth had become dilapidated and the burgh leaders decided to erect a new building on the same site. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of two bays facing the High Street. The left-hand bay, which was gabled, featured two arched windows on the ground floor, a tripartite window with tracery on the first floor and a…