Borough Hall

Borough Hall, now a theatre, was built in 1877 with a later 19th-century addition. It is designed in the French Gothic style by Henry Ward of Stafford, constructed from brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof.

The building has two storeys and a symmetrical nine-window range. The ground floor is made of rock-faced stone and includes a frieze of shields above, with brick diapering over the first-floor windows. The top features a modillioned ashlar cornice and a parapet. The central section projects forward under a coped gable, flanked by gablets. The entrance consists of two orders with polished marble shafts and a 20th-century inserted canopy over paired panelled doors. The ground floor has seven windows on each side, arranged rhythmically with large and small arches, piers with nook shafts, weathered sills, and continuous hood moulds, along with end entrances. The first floor has a central four-light plate tracery window with red sandstone shafts, a canted balcony on a moulded base with arcading, and other two-light windows with foliate impost bands. Roundels are positioned above the first-floor windows, and round shafts at the ends and gabled centre are corbelled from the impost level. The gable features two quatrefoils with projecting heads and a wheel window set in a diapered band, with similar wheel windows on the gablets.

The addition to the left is also two storeys high with a three-window range. It has an ashlar plinth, terracotta dressings, two string courses, a first-floor impost course, and a top modillioned cornice and parapet with blind roundels. The ground floor windows have four-centred heads, originally designed as three lights with ovolo mullions, now replaced with tripartite pointed sashes. The first floor features windows with three pointed lights, transoms, enriched aprons, and tympanums with enriched panels, along with diapering over the windows that includes two profile medallions. The roof has iron cresting and skylights.

The interior has been much altered but retains the staircase at the rear of the hall.