Town Hall

The Town Hall, now serving as local authority offices, was built in 1882 by architects Henry Perkin and George Bertram Bulmer from Leeds. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar sandstone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has a ground floor and a tall first floor, arranged in one by three bays, and is designed in the Jacobean style.

The elevation facing Bridge Street includes one bay with a plinth and features leaved panelled doors beneath a fanlight, all set within a round-arched portal that has an ashlar archivolt and corbels. A datestone is positioned between the string and cornice. The portal extends upward, creating an ashlar decorative surround for a three-light window with two transoms, topped by a Diocletian window beneath a pediment. Above, there is a steeply pitched hipped roof with a dentil cornice.

To the right, there is a recessed linking bay that connects to the rear range of the Old Town Hall, which includes a two-light window and a pedimented oculus above, with the roof hipped to the right. The left side, which faces Baxtergate, features ashlar surrounds to the windows, with 13 windows on the ground floor for offices and a two-storey section above that has blind lunettes in three pedimented dormers, from which ridge stacks rise.

Inside, stone steps lead from the entrance hall to a galleried assembly room on the first floor. This room is equipped with side benches and a dado beneath the gallery, decorative panels on the gallery front, and a basket-arched ceiling with transverse ribs.