Town Hall

The Town Hall is a two-storey, five-bay building that originally served as a market. The lower storey is constructed from coursed rubble, while the upper storey features roughcast over a painted freestone sill band. The slate roof has dentilled eaves. The lower storey is marked by five round arches with dressed voussoirs and a freestone impost band. The right-hand arch provides a passage to Wall Street. The middle three arches have been infilled with 20th-century shop fronts, which include half-glazed doors, small-pane shop windows above rock-faced 'stallrisers', and broad radial-glazed overlights. The left-hand arch features iron gates and a recessed entrance to the upper storey. The upper-storey windows are adorned with rusticated architraves and triple keystones, housing 24-pane hornless sash windows. Below the left-hand window, there is a bronze plaque dating from 1816. The left gable end, which is scribed roughcast, has a dentilled cornice that once supported a pediment, now obscured by the addition of the Bulkeley Hotel in 1829.

On the east side of the passage to Wall Street, there is a parallel four-bay rear wing, also finished in scribed roughcast painted white. This wing features 24-pane hornless sash windows on the upper storey and a one-storey projection below. To the left of the arch leading to Wall Street, there is an added escape door on the upper right.

Access to the building is through the left-hand arch, which leads to an open-well stairway. The stairwell has been infilled by a lift shaft, but originally featured a square wooden newel and cast iron balusters with Ionic capitals, along with boarded wainscot. In the principal room on the first floor, panelled doors are set within shallow, wide, and high arched recesses. The door frames are decorated with guilloche moulding, which is also used for the window surrounds and the sill band.