The Town Hall

The Town Hall and Market Hall is a notable red brick building with a deep-eaved, hipped roof of small slates, dating back to the 19th century. The building holds group value as an excellent example of Victorian municipal architecture. The east front has five bays, with the central bay slightly projected and featuring a plain timber and brick pediment. The ground floor brickwork is a different colour to the upper floors. The first floor is characterised by large sash windows with gauged brick heads and stone sills, 12 panes apart, with a broad, cambered-headed triple sash of 4-12-4 panes at the centre. Painted stone bands run above the ground floor of the side bays and across the front at impost level. The outer arches originally had open iron rails, and are now filled with c.1900 glazing with radiating bars to the heads. The central arch is wider and taller, featuring a painted triple keystone and ashlar blocks in the jambs. The entrance has folding panelled doors and an iron radiating-bar fanlight. A large clock tower rises from the centre ridge of the main block, featuring four clock faces, a pyramid roof, a louvred top lantern with a pyramid roof, and a weathervane. A plaque commemorates the 1921 clock tower. Iron tie-rod ends are visible on the exterior. The north and south ends feature a first-floor sash window, with the stone bands carried around and a triple keystone above a broad arched doorway with a fanlight similar to that on the front. The first floor window on the north end is currently blank.

A two-storey rear extension was added in 1828, built with sandstone ashlar and featuring a flat roof, rebated quadrant-curved corners, and terminating against the sides of a slightly projected broad, pedimented centrepiece. The pediment contains a plastered blind roundel. A triple sash window is located on the first floor, mirroring the design on the east front, and a broad arched doorway with a triple keystone is on the ground floor. The doorway has been altered with C20 doors and a modified fanlight. Painted stone bands are present above the ground floor and at impost level. These bands continue around the windowless rear left side of the main range and also around a two-storey addition built in 1933 on the rear right.

The Market Hall is distinguished by three cast-iron columns, stamped J. Morris Welshpool, and a modern ceiling. One arch exists on the back wall, along with an impost band. The rear entrance hall is plain, and features an apsidal stone staircase to the northwest, fitted with a plain iron railing. This staircase leads to a large, upper long room with a plaster panelled ceiling divided into three sections, featuring deep, moulded beams, with the central section subdivided into three panels, the central one bearing an acanthus rose. A stage bay is separated off at the south end. A screen to the rear room consists of four full-height timber pilasters, with panelled screens between the upper halves of the openings.