Old Town Hall

The Old Town Hall, built in 1846 by W.L. Moffat from Doncaster, is located in Middlesbrough Market Place. This Italianate building is now used as a public library and community centre. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, which have been rendered and scored to resemble dressed stone, and features a Welsh slate roof.

The two-storey structure has a five-bay entrance front facing north. The central entrance consists of renewed double doors set within a slightly projecting, keyed, segment-headed surround, topped by a narrow entablature. The end bays project slightly and are adorned with clasping pilaster strips that support a continuous modillion cornice and a shallow straight parapet with moulded copings.

On the ground floor, round-headed windows are paired in the end bays and grouped in threes in the centre, although some glazing has been altered or blocked within quoin surrounds. The first-floor windows are round-arched sashes with margin lights, featuring keyed archivolts on tapered pilasters and corbelled projecting moulded sills, with a plain sill band below. The roof is shallow-pitched and hipped.

The three-bay returns have similar central round-headed doorways and ground-floor windows, with alterations noted in the left return. The right return features a central Venetian window with sashes and slender panelled pilasters flanking the centre light. Lateral stacks at the rear are now missing.

Inside, the first-floor council chamber includes panelled doors within wood architraves and windows with pilasters and keyed archivolts. The ceiling is basket-arched, panelled, and beamed, with three round vents that have raised moulded borders. A panelled front is present for the public gallery. A dogleg staircase leads from the first floor to the gallery, featuring shaped tread ends, stick balusters, a turned newel, and a handrail that is ramped at the ends.