The town hall, which was the headquarters of Chatham Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

[1] Following the incorporation of Chatham as a municipal borough on 10 December 1890,[2] civic leaders decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected was a plot of vacant land, which was owned by the War Office, located just to the south east of what was then a military storehouse.

[5] It was designed by George Edward Bond in the Renaissance style and opened on 23 January 1900 by Lord Rosebery.

[1][9][10] In the 1930s, in anticipation of the Second World War, the local civil defence headquarters was established in the basement of the building.

[11] The town hall was the venue for various scenes in the satirical comedy film, Left Right and Centre, starring Ian Carmichael, in 1959.