Former Town Hall

The Former Town Hall, built in 1886, consists of two adjoining ranges designed in a playful Tudor style, with the police station on the right and the town hall on the left.

The Police Station is a two-storey, symmetrical building featuring twin gables and a narrow recessed central entrance bay. It is constructed of brick with painted stone detailing and has a tiled roof with plain oversailing eaves and bargeboards. The building includes three simply moulded chimney stacks and has simple, three-light plain glazed windows on the first floor of each flanking bay, which have moulded mullions. The ground floor features similar six-light mullioned and transomed windows. There are continuous moulded brick dripcourses and two similar stringcourses, along with a plain moulded plinth. The central bay contains a narrow entrance with a depressed arched head, fluted keystone, and moulded surround, along with a contemporary door featuring simple scrolled ironwork. A single-light window with a moulded ogee head is located on the first floor. Decorative stone relief plaques adorn both gables, with the left one displaying the date 1886. An external clock is mounted on a decorative iron scrolled bracket, and there is an inserted stone plaque in the left bay that records its erection in 1911. To the right, there is an alleyway with a contemporary flat-arched opening and a stepped brick-coped wall running north.

Adjoining the police station to the west is the Town Hall, which is a single-storey structure with a large Dutch gable to the west. It consists of two bays, with the right bay advanced and both featuring catslide roofs. A central dormer with a timber-framed gable and plain eaves contains a three-light leaded window. Each bay has a three-light mullioned window to the left of a door, with the left bay's door now blocked and rebuilt as a window. The contemporary door to the right has ironwork and mouldings similar to those of the police station. The Town Hall also features a moulded plinth, mullions, and window reveals, as well as Renaissance grotesque decoration in the west gable pediment and lead coping to the gable. Below the gable, there is a ten-light mullioned and transomed leaded window. The rear of the building has modern brick extensions.