The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Municipal Borough of Castleford, is now used as a local events venue.

[3] However, by the 1960s, the Municipal Borough of Castleford had outgrown the old town hall, and decided to commission a new building to house the council's administration and also provide a venue for events.

[4] The council organised a competition in 1964, which was won by the Griffiths Lewis Goad Partnership,[5] described by Nikolaus Pevsner as a firm of "three very young architects".

In 1980, Henry Moore donated a sculpture, "Draped Reclining Figure", which was placed outside the building, but it was removed in 2012 due to concerns around possible theft.

[13][14] The five-storey offices and three-storey events space form two sides of a square, on Ferrybridge Road, and the two are linked only at ground floor level.