[7] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with 15 bays facing onto Tweedy Road; the central section of three bays featured a semi-circular porch supported by four Ionic order columns and surmounted by an urn on the ground floor; there were three windows with a pediment above on the first floor; a wooden cupola with a copper dome was erected at roof level.

[8] David Bowie's wedding to Mary Angela Barnett took place in the town hall in March 1970.

[9] As part of a larger regeneration scheme to create a new Civic Centre, the council moved their offices to the old palace in 1982.

[14] In 2020 works began to convert the town hall into serviced offices, a restaurant and to establish a boutique hotel on the site.

[9][15] Following completion of the works, which were carried out to a design by Cartwright Pickard, the building re-opened in September 2022.