[1] The new building was designed by Culpin and Bowers in the Classical style and built by Galbraith Brothers.

[4] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Peckham Road; the central bay featured an arched doorway with a keystone in the form of the helm of a ship on the ground floor; there was a tall recess on the first, second and third floors flanked by four huge composite order antae with a clock and a pedestal above.

[7] Works to convert the property into student accommodation to a design by Jestico and Whiles for Goldsmiths College were completed in 2016.

[8] Memorials to council staff who had died in the First and Second World Wars were taken down during the works and transferred to Tooley Street.

[9] The works, which involved extending the building further north along Harvil Street, also facilitated provision of a new auditorium for "Theatre Peckham", which provides performing arts classes for young people, as well as a new café and some self-contained artists' studios within the new complex.