Bilston Town Hall

Bilston Town Hall, built between 1872 and 1873 with a library addition in 1880, is a town hall and library that now serves as an office. Designed by Bidlake and Lovatt, the building features ashlar stonework and a tiled roof. It is two storeys high and has a six-bay façade, with the third and sixth bays being larger and projecting forward. The design is in the Free Classical style, characterized by channelled rustication on the ground floor, a platt band above, a sill course on the first floor, and a top frieze and cornice with a blocking course. The third and sixth bays have parapets, and there is an arcaded parapet between them. The flat pilasters are paired at the first floor in the third and sixth bays.

On the ground floor, the windows are segmental-headed with archivolts, imposts, and keystones, while the sixth bay features a triple window. The first floor has architraved windows with keystones and cornices; the third bay includes a Venetian window, and the sixth bay has a triple window with a paired window above it. The entrance in the fifth bay has a head similar to the ground floor windows. The left return to Church Street displays similar architectural details, with a single bay to the right and a recessed three-bay range with an arcaded parapet to the left of the entrance tower.

The entrance tower features a stiff leaf cornice above a battered ground floor on a high plinth. The segmental-headed entrance has short shafts with stiff leaf capitals and a key, a blind tympanum, and 20th-century paired doors. The first floor has a balcony above a two-light window, with a carved capital on the colonnette and imposts, and a blind tympanum with a segmental cornice above. The tower is topped with a bracketed cornice and a clock stage that includes clock faces with archivolts and keystones, a cornice, and a pyramidal roof with a weather vane. The building also features a two-bay canted angle and a rear elevation with a two-bay return to a wing with an entrance, all showcasing similar architectural details. The interior has not been inspected.