[3] The new building was designed by John Lowe in the Edwardian Baroque style, built in red brick by Moore and Sons and was officially opened on 3 November 1881.

[6][7] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto the Church Street; the central section of five bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a doorway with a fanlight on the ground floor flanked by two pairs of Corinthian order stone pilasters supporting a stone entablature with the inscription "Town Hall"; there were five round headed windows forming an arcade on the first floor, and at roof level there was a central clock tower with a cupola (containing a Thwaites & Reed chiming clock),[8] flanked by dormer windows with mansard roofs above.

Initially, the principal room was the assembly hall;[4] the building was extended to the rear to create a new council chamber and courtroom in 1899.

[11] The building subsequently fell into a state of disrepair until its management passed to a special purpose entity, Eccles Community Hall Organisation, in July 2010.

[4] Following the refurbishment of the assembly hall, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, in 2012, it became a regular concert venue with programmes that included the works of Antonio Vivaldi, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Fritz Kreisler and Edward Elgar performed by the BBC Philharmonic in November 2015.