The politician and shipping company founder, Stephen Williamson, and the Australian grocery wholesaler, David Fowler, each agreed to contribute £5,000 to the cost of the new building.

The fourth bay from the left featured an arched opening with a wrought iron gate and a hood mould; there was a mullioned and transomed window on the first floor and a clock face in the stepped gable above.

There was a stone plaque above the mercat cross inscribed with the words "Erected by Stephen Williamson and David Fowler For Municipal and other Purposes in this their native town A.D. 1883".

The right hand bay was fenestrated by a small window above and to the left of the plaque and was surmounted a stepped gable which contained a plain stone panel.

[6] Works of art in the town hall include a landscape painted by Sidney Richard Percy depicting highland cattle drinking from the River Llugwy in Northwest Wales.