[3] It was designed by Thomas Beesley in the Queen Anne style, built in red brick by R. Neill & Sons of Manchester at a cost of £10,200 and opened in December 1893.

[1][2][4] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Market Street; the central section of three bays featured a round headed doorway with a stained glass fanlight flanked by pilasters and brackets supporting a curved balcony and by full-height octagonal turrets.

[1] There was a French door on the first floor with a lunette window above surmounted by a shaped pediment containing a blank roundel.

[6] A war memorial to commemorate local service personnel who had died in the Second Boer War, in the form of a stone figure of a soldier on a plinth, was designed by the local firm of Dring & Manchester and was built by Scott & Prescott of St Helens: it was unveiled by Lord Newton on 29 April 1905.

[8] Performers at the town hall in the post-war period included the rock band, The Beatles, who took part in a concert on 30 November 1962.