Town House, 31 High Street, Kirriemuir

The building was commissioned during the tenure of William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus who, as chieftain and ruler of the province of Angus, owned extensive estates across the area. The building was designed in the Scottish medieval style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1604. It accommodated a lock-up for petty criminals on the ground floor and an assembly room for the burgh council on the first floor. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing north onto The Square, with an external staircase for access to the first floor in front of the middle bay. In the mid-19th century, the town house was the place to which local weavers brought their cloth for examination by…