[4][5] In 1903 the council applied to the Andrew Carnegie Trust for a grant to establish a purpose-built public library.

The left hand section, comprising the council office, featured a round-headed doorway on the ground floor flanked by paired full height Ionic order columns, a Venetian window on the first floor and an open segmental pediment containing a cartouche flanked by female figures above.

It briefly continued to be the local seat of government after Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council was formed in 1974.

[9] After the public library moved to temporary facilities at the town's leisure centre in 2001, a major refurbishment of the whole complex was carried out.

[2] The work, which included a new wing for the public library, was completed in time for an official opening by the Mayor of the Vale of Glamorgan, Nic Hodges, on 4 January 2007.