Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1018513

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018513

The Tolbooth was built towards the end of the sixteenth century by the Earl Marischal and was originally used as a storehouse. When Stonehaven became the county town in 1600 this building was elected to serve as the new Tolbooth. It continued to be used for council business and as a prison until 1767 when the first part of the County Buildings was built and a new jail was erected (Watt, 1976, 41). After 1767 the upper part of the building was used as a granary while the ground floor was employed as a coal and lime store (Watt, 1976, 49). Stonehaven's Tolbooth underwent restoration in 1963 and is now a museum. In 1790 a Town House was erected at the east end of the High Street (Watt, 1976, 29).

Information from ‘Historic Stonehaven: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1978).