Worksop Town Hall

The building is a town hall, originally a corn exchange, dated 1851 and designed by Charles Gilbert. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, featuring a hipped slate roof. The ashlar dressings include rusticated quoins, moulded lintels, a first-floor band, a string course, and modillioned eaves. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a three-bay symmetrical facade forming an L-plan.

The central bay is recessed and topped with a pediment, with a vermiculated plinth and rusticated central section supporting an iron railing. The central bay has three large round headed windows with heavily rusticated architraves and carved keystones. Flanking these are single casements set in round headed recesses with Ionic colonettes, each recess featuring rusticated architraves and keystones decorated with a carved cow's head and a cornucopia. Above are the Royal Arms in the centre, and two-light casements flanked by single casements. Further above are single aediculed casements with Corinthian colonettes and segmental pediments. Above that is a central clock set within an ornate surround, flanked by strapwork panels, and further up, small slit windows in scrollwork surrounds. A cross-gabled leaded bell turret with four timber posts rises above the roofline. On the west side are two flanking pilasters and a central casement; above, three blank panels and a Venetian window, followed again by two glazing bar sashes.

A rear wing, built of coursed squared rubble and brick, is two storeys high with five bays. Within the wing are five round headed casements on the ground floor, and five round headed sashes above.

To the right of the façade is a Carrara marble war memorial tablet, commemorating eight men from the town who died in the South African War (1899-1902). It was unveiled on 1 August 1903 by Field Marshall Lord Grenfell and designed and made by George Colton of Worksop. A field gun is carved in relief within the pediment above the memorial. A wooden gabled canopy tops the memorial, with a leaded inscription quoting from II Samuel I.25.