Former Town Hall

The former Town Hall, now used for commercial purposes, was built in 1871 and designed by Alfred Waterhouse. It features red brick with blue brick dressings and a plain tiled roof adorned with scalloped bands and ridge cresting. The building has two storeys and an attic, with an arcaded ground floor consisting of five bays. This ground floor is supported by blue brick squat cylindrical columns on red brick bases, topped with red brick stiff-leaf capitals.

To the left, there is a projecting gabled entrance porch with a deeply moulded arched entrance. The ground floor includes blue brick bands and a rosette frieze, while the upper section has three-light Gothic windows with blind terracotta panels featuring interlace decoration below, along with terracotta hoodmoulds. The building displays arms in low relief panels on either side and has a triangular corbelled eaves cornice. The roof features three gabled dormers with quatrefoil lights and a decorative brick cornice, topped with a leaded spirelet.

To the left is a staircase block with stepped windows, and a parallel rear range, likely built for office space, which has three storeys and a subsidiary entrance tower at the southwest angle. The building includes axial and end stacks. Inside, there is a lofty main hall at the upper level with cambered trusses supported by wrought-iron ties. A panelled gallery projects from the north wall, held up by paired struts, and there is a stone staircase with heavy newels and wrought-iron rails.