Moot Hall

Moot Hall is an octagonal building constructed in 1817 to replace a 17th-century Town Hall for the Earl of Carlisle. It was given to the Parish Council in 1896 and has since been extended on the ground floor. The extension is made of dressed red sandstone, with stucco and painted quoins above, and features a green slate roof with lead hips. The wooden tower has a lead cupola. Originally, the ground floor was open for a market selling butter, eggs, and poultry. The building has two storeys and three bays, along with a single-storey extension.

The ground floor includes a round-headed porch flanked by small niches and an external staircase leading to the upper floor meeting chamber, which is now a Tourist Office. The extension features large round-headed windows with glazing bars. The upper floor has a pointed head entrance and windows, a plank door with a radial fanlight, and glazing bar sashes with square and shaped heads. The tower is adorned with engaged angle columns and a clock, topped by a latticed cupola that houses a market bell and weather vane. To the left of the entrance is a benchmark, and to the right are iron stocks. A bronze wall plaque commemorating local poet Robert Burn, who died in 1902, is mounted on the stairs to the right. Additionally, there is a bull ring set in the cobbles to the west of the entrance.