The Town Hall

The Town Hall is an Italianate-style building dating from the 19th century. It incorporates a ground-floor market area and displays grey limestone dressings, with rendered upper floors and a slate roof supported by deep eaves on paired brackets. The building is two storeys high.

The western and eastern ends each feature three bays, with rendered pediments above, each containing a blank roundel. The west end has three 12-pane horned sash windows within plain raised surrounds and stone sills. Below, the arcade features square piers, plain plinths and impost blocks, stone voussoirs and large keystones to the arches. The keystones are positioned under raised blocks in the first-floor band. The north and south sides have similar hornless sash windows over arches for four bays, though the eastern arch has been infilled with 20th-century brick for toilets. A projected belvedere tower is situated in the fifth bay of the north side, above the entrance. This tower has a 12-pane sash window on the first floor alongside a narrow arched window in a raised surround, which breaks the impost band and has its own keystone.

The tower’s recessed arched doorway has a large outer arch matching the main arcade, framing an inner arch with imposts. It is fitted with double four-panel doors and a four-pane fanlight. A first-floor arched window features a sunk panel below the sill and glazing with marginal bars, alongside three roundels in the head. Above the main building's eaves level is a band, and the tower’s top stage has grey stone roundels on each face, with two bands and large paired fretwork brackets under the eaves of a shallow-pyramid roof. A tall, thin, timber open lantern sits atop the roof, with arched faces, a steep metal curved pyramid roof and a vane displaying the Prince of Wales feathers.

The south side mirrors the design but lacks the porch tower, with the fifth bay projected slightly and featuring a blank arch and rock-faced stone infill. A cambered-headed, iron-barred cell window is set within a raised surround, and the plinth, impost band, and first-floor band extend across the sixth bay, which contains no window. The east end has three blank arches at ground-floor level with a band at impost level. The first arch has a barred cell window above the impost band, the second a larger cambered-headed window above the band, and the third a framed ledged door and a three-pane small cambered-headed window above the band with stone voussoirs. The door has tooled jambs and a slab lintel. Two long, narrow, arched 16-pane windows with stone sills on grey stone corbels and raised surrounds are situated on the first floor.

The open market area is stone flagged and contains three iron columns made by T Bright of Carmarthen. 20th-century brick walling encloses the toilets at the rear. Stone stairs within the tower lead up to the upper meeting room, which has a plaster ceiling. The upper floor has not been inspected.