Town Hall

The Town Hall is a two-storey building featuring a three-bay English Renaissance facade, inspired by the style of Inigo Jones but incorporating Mannerist elements. The design emphasizes the central section through recession rather than projection, using materials such as ashlar and rubble quoins. It has a hipped slate roof with end parapets, a swept-out bracketed cornice, and a plain entablature on the outer bays. The facade includes 18-pane sash windows with moulded architraves and brackets supporting raised cornices, with the Duke of Beaufort Arms above the central window. A deep cill band, cornice, and entablature are present above a tetrastyle portico featuring twin Doric columns in antis on the ground floor, which was formerly closed by iron gates. A centrally located iron-bracketed lamp hangs above the entrance. The ground floor is constructed of coursed rubble, with stone flags, and features three segmental openings with voussoirs and keystones, along with modern iron gates on the outer bays.

Inside, a cantilevered staircase with wave-moulded tread ends and foliage-panelled banisters is located to the right in the well, accompanied by a classical plaster cornice. The courtroom occupies the entire frontage of the building, with bays divided by segmental arches that feature portcullis designs (the Beaufort arms) in the spandrels. The interior also includes a classical cornice and a bracketed hood above panelled doors and reveals.