The structure, which was the meeting place of Faversham Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

The original design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the east side of the Market Place: there was a row of sash windows on the first floor.

[1] Following a disastrous fire, caused by the excesses of local people celebrating British military successes in the Napoleonic Wars, the building had to be rebuilt in 1814.

[6] A paving stone to celebrate the life of the locally-born soldier, Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame of the Royal Engineers, who, as a junior officer, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Neuve-Chapelle in France during the First World War,[7] was unveiled outside the guildhall by Lieutenant-General Sir Mark Mans on 19 December 2014.

[9] Works of art in the guildhall included a portrait by Joseph Clover of a local benefactor, Henry Wreight, who paid for the rebuilding of the Faversham Almshouses in the early 19th century.