[2] The new council established its offices on the first floor of a building on the corner of Rosemary Road and the High Street, which had been designed in the Victorian style and completed in 1894.

[3] In the early 1920s, civic leaders decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected on the west side of Station Road had been occupied by a potato field.

[4] It was designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas[6] in the Neo-Georgian style, was built in brown brick with stone dressings and was officially opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught on 14 April 1931.

[4][7] The design of the new building involved a symmetrical main frontage with fifteen bays facing onto the Station Road; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a full-height tetrastyle portico with composite order columns flanked by Doric order piers supporting an entablature bearing the words "Clacton Town Hall" and a pediment above.

[11] Works of art in the town hall include a painting by the artist, Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn, depicting a Dutch skating scene.