[1] After significant population growth in the late 18th century, mainly associated with the township's status as a residential suburb, the police commissioners who administered the area decided to procure a town hall.

[3] It was designed by Richard Lane in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was officially opened on 14 October 1831.

[3] The town hall ceased to be the local seat of government when the municipal borough of Manchester was formed in 1838.

[5] The building was also used as an events venue: the conductor, Charles Seymour, performed his quartet series in the town hall in the early 1850s.

[12] The construction work, which was carried out by Morgan Sindall to a design by Allies and Morrison, involved the demolition of both the 1970s building behind the town hall façade and the Mabel Tylecote Building: the work, which also included the restoration and cleaning of the town hall façade, was completed and the complex re-opened in December 2020.