Town Hall

The building is a Town Hall, dating from the 19th century, constructed of pinkish limestone with Welsh slate roofs. The stonework is rockfaced on the ground floor, with a plain plinth, and ashlar above, except for rockfaced long and short quoins. The two-storey rectangular block features a three-bay centrepiece with a central entrance, flanked by balancing one-bay wings. The wing on the left is in the same plane as the main front, but its return two-bay side elevation is set slightly forward. This corner is surmounted by a clock tower. The right wing is set slightly back from the main front, and its return elevation is in the same plane, although quoins suggest a possible alteration. The main front has a central doorway with a Tuscan pilastered surround, arched head doorway with imposts and keystone. Flanking this are windows with keyed elliptical heads and marginal glazing, and beyond them, in the wings, windows with arched heads set in voussoired recesses. A plat band across the first floor is inscribed 'ERECTED BY CAPEL HANBURY LEIGH Esq LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY AND OPENED FOR PUBLIC BUSINESS JAN Vth MDCCCLVI'. The first floor has three arch-headed windows with modern sashes, incorporating imposts, keys, and bracketed cills. An additional bay to the left has an arched niche framed by rusticated pilasters, and to the right, an additional arched window with marginal glazing. All windows are modern PVC units fitted in 1996. A heavily bracketed cornice sits above a frieze, with a blind parapet incorporating recesses above the windows. The parapet is located above the main block and forms the base of the clock tower, bearing the Hanbury arms in an arched niche. The right side has a plain eaves returning over a three-window ground floor with two voussoired and one keyed window, and a first floor with a tall arched stair window. Two tall ashlar stacks with tall original pots are present on this facade. The left corner features a clock tower rising in one further stage, with corner pilasters, topped by a conical roof and iron finial. The return elevation has two windows and a door on the ground floor, and three windows above, all with keyed heads, and again a tall stair window. This elevation was truncated in 1991.

The interior was extensively altered in 1991 when the staircase was replaced. The council chamber on the first floor was completely refitted, but the room's overall form remains unaltered. This chamber has five bays stretching back from the three-window centre of the front elevation, displaying pilasters with incised Greek decoration and a coffered ceiling.