Town Hall, 30 High Street, Auchtermuchty

The town of Auchtermuchty was granted a charter by James IV of Scotland in 1517: the charter gave the burgh council the right to erect a tolbooth but it seems that a purpose-built structure was not contemplated until the early 18th century. At that time the burgh leaders decided that the lack of a traditional tolbooth was "uneasy and troublesome". The new building was designed in the Scottish medieval style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1729. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of seven bays facing the High Street. The central bay was formed by a tall three-stage tower: there was a doorway flanked by pilasters supporting a triangular fanlight in the first stage,…