Town Hall

The Town Hall, dated 1857, serves as a fire engine house with the town hall located above. The ground floor is currently used as a museum and office. It is constructed of grey gault brick with red brick dressings and features a steeply pitched roof, which is now covered with asbestos slates. There is an end stack made of gault brick and a double eaves cornice that incorporates both dentil and sawtooth red brickwork. The building stands two storeys high, framed by red brick rusticated quoins. The first floor has a range of five windows, each topped with red brick round-headed arches. Between the storeys, there are four moulded terracotta panels set diagonally, each displaying the numerals 1, 8, 5, or 7. The engine house openings feature cut and moulded red brickwork for the arches and voussoirs, which are now part glazed and blocked, with the words "fire engines" painted on the arches. A central doorway has a double recessed round-headed archway made of red brick, with the tympanum filled with faience tiles and double doors. Inside, there is a lockup with its original door and a louvre above. The town hall, which also served as the Magistrates Court, possibly retains its original hammerbeam roof, although this is now concealed by a later inserted roof.