Neuadd y Dref (Town Hall )

The Neuadd y Dref, or Town Hall, is a stone building with red Ruabon brick detailing, originally constructed in the 19th century. It was raised to create a covered market at its base, compensating for its location at a lower level within the town square. A new frontage was added in 1914, using similar materials: rock-faced rubble with a dressed limestone plinth. The building has slate roofs.

The Town Hall is four storeys high and symmetrical, with five window bays. The central three bays project forward, and there are sloping side wings that follow the lines of Talbot Street and Church Street. The main front features a wide arched entrance leading down steps to the sunken covered market. Above the entrance are round-headed windows, followed by tall 12-pane corniced sash windows on the first floor, with a triangular pediment above the centre bay. The second floor has architraved windows. A plain entablature runs above the second floor, with a further entablature above the attic (fourth) floor inscribed "NEUADD Y DREF".

A steeply pitched roof, with coped gables, rises to a central clock tower, which is a prominent landmark. The clock tower has three stages: a classical stage with corner columns, a small attic stage, an arched belfry, and finishes with a lead dome and finial. A foundation stone, laid by C R M Talbot, MP, Lord Lieutenant for Glamorganshire on 31st October 1881, is located to the left of the market hall entrance.

At the rear of the side wings, twin segmentally pedimented doors lead up flights of 27 steps each side to a flat-roofed structure which provides access to the main assembly hall. The side elevations, dating back to 1881, feature four tall pedimented windows with shaped aprons; the glazing patterns have been altered. A two-storey block at the rear is constructed of stone with red brick quoins, bands and a dentilled cornice, and includes a red terracotta cross window and a door with a four-light overlight.

The interior includes offices in the front block, and a large assembly hall with a proscenium arch, an entablature on twin columns, and a curved balcony at the rear.