The Town Hall

The Town Hall was built in 1836 on the site of an earlier Town Hall designed by C. Sloane in 1764. It cost £3,000 and was constructed by the Brighton architect Amon Henry Wilds, designed to imitate the Parthenon in Athens. The building features sandstone ashlar and has a large tetrastyle portico supported by fluted Doric columns, which includes a triglyph frieze and small shields displaying the Arms of Gravesend Borough in the metopes. Above the portico is a pediment that originally had figures of Minerva, Justice, and Truth, which were removed in 1949.

There are three windows on the first floor beneath the portico, while the ground floor has one window and a wide entrance leading to an open passage that provides access to the Market behind the Town Hall. Each side of the portico has a recessed section containing one triple window on both the ground and first floors, with pilasters between the lights. The south ground floor window is currently blocked. Above these flanking sections is a triglyph frieze and a parapet. The glazing bars remain intact.

The inscription over the portico reads: "Rebuilt 1836 in the Mayoralties of M Troughton and R Oakes Esquires. A H Wilds Architect," while the entrance to the passage has the inscription: "Re-constructed during the Mayoralty of George H Edmonds Esq 1882-3." The interior was further altered in 1898.