Number 20 And The Old Town Hall

The building is a former Town Hall, dating from 1861/62, now used as a shop with vacant upper floors. It is constructed of Bath stone ashlar. The building is three storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay slightly narrower. The design is Italianate in style.

The facade is articulated by two tiers of attached Doric columns, supporting imposts and cornices which break forward over the columns. A top tier of attached Ionic columns follows, with further imposts supporting a cornice and blocking course, again broken forward over the columns. The ground floor is rusticated and features three semi-circular arches for a shop, a footway, and the road. Each upper floor bay contains a round-arched, architraved sash window with four panes and no horns. Passageways run beneath the building, dividing the street from the footway with an arcade of four large and two smaller round-headed arches with plain capitals. A moulded cornice and detail for a hanging shop sign indicate that shops and windows, now blocked, once faced the footway. The rear elevation is rendered and includes two fifteen-pane windows and one tripartite window with a 4:12:4 pane arrangement and no horns. The interior of the building has not been inspected. The listed buildings in High Street form a notable group.