Town Hall

The Town Hall is a Baroque style building featuring two storeys plus attics. The main elevation consists of nine bays, with the upper floor faced in red brick and ashlar dressings, while the ground floor is rusticated ashlar. The building has hipped slate roofs. The central three-bay block projects and is topped with a balustrade parapet featuring turned balusters, pilasters, and quoins. The outer centre bays each have a window with an architrave and triangular pediment on the first floor, and a segmental headed window on the ground floor. The centre bay boasts a Venetian window on the first floor, a crowning segmental pediment, and a semi-circular columned portico in ashlar with a balustraded parapet on the ground floor.

The intermediate blocks are each two bays wide, also featuring a balustraded parapet, with two segmental headed sash windows with rusticated architraves on the first floor and two flat-headed sash windows on the ground floor. Each end block, which projects forward, has two storeys and an attic, adorned with pilasters and an eaves cornice with modillions, topped by a hipped slate roof. The attic storey has a sash window with a moulded architrave and segmental pediment, while each first floor has a sash window with a keystone and rusticated architrave, and each ground floor has a semi-circular headed window. The return elevations of the end blocks each have three bays in the same style, leading to a long two-storey elevation in red brick facing George Street.

Inside, there is a classicising entrance lobby. At the rear on the ground floor, there is a public hall, and to the left, a staircase hall featuring elaborate classical detailing. On the upper floor, the Council Chamber is designed in an early 18th century style.