Old Town Hall

The Old Town Hall is a two-storey building with a four-window front made of coursed rubble and a gabled roof, which previously featured a pediment. It has a slate roof and a brick chimney stack. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, and there is an attic ventilator located in a circular recess at the gable. The ground floor is open, featuring paired segmental arches in the center, flanked by smaller semi-circular arches, all with impost blocks.

To the extreme left is a modern panelled door, and the neighboring archway has been blocked with modern rubble. The arcade extends southwest towards Market Square, where near the corner stands an octagonal clock tower, partially hung with slate and topped with a louvred belfry. The clock tower is set diagonally to the base and features gables and finials on each face, with an octagonal spire and weathervane above. The west elevation facing Market Square has a similar three-window front, retaining the circular recess for the attic ventilator and featuring two arched openings on the ground floor. A small pane glazed screen closes the arcade at both ends, with boarded stall risers continuing on either side within the arcade. The center has octagonal piers with stop-chamfered edges, which are said to have originally been ships' masts.

Inside, a late Victorian staircase on the left leads to the modernized first-floor Council Chamber, which has a ribbed panelled ceiling with part glazed deep coves and circular patterns, along with a dog-toothed cornice. There is a Doric columned dais with a rosette cornice on the apsidal platform behind, although it has been extensively altered. The roof features mostly king post trusses with modifications from various periods, and the clock mechanism was made by Whitehouse and Son of Derby. The basement, accessed through a former shop at the east end, contains a prison cell retaining door and has a segmental brick roof.