Former Town Hall And Attached Former Fire Station

The building comprises a former town hall, later used as a magistrates' court, and an attached former fire station, constructed in 1864 by Reeves and Butcher at a cost of £4,000. It replaced an earlier town hall in the High Street. In 1895, a fire station was added to the left side. The building is stuccoed on masonry with slate roofs.

The town hall's original plan included a County Court office, registrar's office, a high bailiff’s office, judges’ apartments, and a large hall for magistrates' business. The fire station is set back to the left. The architecture is Italianate in style.

The town hall's exterior has channelled rustication and keyed segmental arches to the ground floor, with a mid-floor entablature featuring guttae to the architrave. Quoin strips define the first floor, while recessed architraves contain three keyed ogee arches flanked by segmental arches. Parapet cornices are present on the side bays. The central bays project forward, featuring a squat attic over a sill band and grouped consoles to the moulded eaves cornice. The roofs are dry slate, hipped over the central bays, with tall stuccoed stacks and modillions to the moulded cornices. The fire station has quoin strips, a moulded first-floor string, and segmental-arched windows in recessed architraves to the first floor, and a slate roof with projecting eaves.

The building is two storeys plus an attic to the central bays, and exhibits a symmetrical 1:3:1-bay facade, with an additional quadrant entrance bay to create a central feature when approached from Killigrew Street, and a doorway replacing a window to the left of the central bays. Original horned sash windows with margin panes are retained, alongside overlights with large panes and pairs of panelled doors. A blind window is above the corner doorway. The curved corner doorway is a prominent feature, with a moulded architrave, dropped key, flanking Tuscan half-columns, and a dentilled cornice surmounted by the Royal Coat of Arms. The right-hand return is a four-window range with similar detailing. The fire station is four bays wide with one smaller bay; it includes horned sashes and two later horned sashes to the altered ground floor on the right.

The interior of the town hall retains features of a 19th-century courtroom and a fine quality cantilevered stone staircase.