Town Hall Including Boundary Walls, Union Street

The building is a late 19th-century town hall, constructed between 1886 and 1887. It is situated on Union Street and exhibits French-influenced detailing, particularly on its principal facade. The design is an H-plan, two-storey structure with five bays, notable for its well-executed details. The exterior is built of stugged ashlar with rusticated and polished dressings, featuring a battered base course, cill courses, a band course, eaves cornice, and a blocking course. There is a keystoned, segmental-headed doorpiece at the entrance.

The symmetrical, south-east facing elevation features a full-height canted bay surmounted by a slated spire and a stone-balustraded entrance with consoled cornices and decorative brattishing. Above the cornice, a carved frieze reads 'VICTORIA' 'BUILDING'. The central bay houses four-light canted windows on each floor. The outer bays have doors with French windows at the first floor, set within a balustrade with urn-finials. The north-east and south-west elevations have piend roofs and transomed and mullioned stair windows. The north-west elevation is seven bays wide and symmetrical, with a door in the centre and a small segmental window in a broad, gabled section.

The main hall windows feature leaded diamond-pattern glazing with coloured margins, while other timber sash and case windows have a six-pane glazing pattern and plate glass. Grey slates cover the roof, banded to the spire and pavilion roofs. Corbelled chimney breasts, dated 1887, rise into banded and corniced shouldered stacks with polygonal cans. Broad corniced gablehead stacks with polygonal cans are at the rear, one of which has been truncated. The skews are stepped and ashlar-coped, with moulded skewputts. Original cast iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers dated 1886, decorative fixings, and square-section gutters are present.

The interior retains some good original detailing, including moulded cornices, architraved panelled doors, panelled and boarded timber reveals, and cast iron radiators. The front building incorporates a lesser hall that has been converted to a library and now features an arcade where a wall previously stood. The south-west entrance has a part-glazed screen door, a black and white tiled floor, a timber ticket booth, and a dog-leg staircase with cast iron barley twist balusters and a decorative newel post. The north-west entrance has a cantilevered, timber-balustraded dog-leg staircase. A former Council Chamber, now subdivided, is located on the first floor, featuring timber fire surrounds and a decorative cast iron roof ventilator. The Main Hall has a hammerbeam roof, boarded dadoes, a stage at the north-west end, and a timber-fronted raked gallery at the south-west end. A further staircase with decorative cast iron balusters serves the accommodation at the rear block.

Low, saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls enclose the property.