The Guildhall And Attached Boundary Wall To West

The Guildhall, now serving as municipal offices, was originally built as subscription rooms and a school in 1849. It is constructed from local limestone rubble with Bathstone dressings and features a slate roof. The building is designed in a restrained Tudor style and stands two storeys tall. The main block has a symmetrical front with six windows arranged in a 2:2:2 pattern, plus an additional bay to the left in a taller section. All windows are stone 3-light mullion-and-transom style, currently fitted with plate glass. The central section of two windows protrudes slightly and features a large Tudor-arch doorway, with the date 1849 carved on a plaque above it.

The first-floor windows have been converted into doorways, retaining upper lights as mullioned overlights, and a secondary balcony shelters the main doorway below. The gable above the doorway is complemented by ornate cast-iron railings on the balcony and steps on both sides. A string course at the first-floor level is interrupted by two large weathered buttresses on either side. The main roof is gable-ended and rises to a higher level over the left end bay. Both the front and end gables have shaped kneelers and coping, with two ventilators featuring small spires projecting through the ridge of the main block. The right end of the building includes a first-floor 4-light window similar to those on the front.

A tall stone boundary wall extends westward from the right-hand end of the Guildhall and includes a stone Tudor-arched doorway. This building is part of a notable group of structures from the second quarter of the 19th century that line New Road (now Victoria Road), which was constructed in 1825 to allow horse-drawn carriages access in and out of the town.