The building is located at the corner of Pakenham and Collie Streets in the west end conservation area of the city.

The two storey building was originally tuck pointed, is now painted and was designed in the Federation Free Classical style of architecture.

The ground floor at the centre of the façade is a frontispiece projection acting as an entryway supported by pillars which both have stone plaques and archivolt front and sides.

[1] In 1900 a delegation of about 30 trade union officials representing the engineers, lumpers, railway workers, carpenters, engine drivers and boiler makers accompanied by local members of Parliament Alfred Kidson, John Higham, Elias Solomon, Joseph John Holmes and Denis Doherty met with Premier John Forrest to discuss the Government providing a site for a hall, or, if no site were available, providing a monetary grant for the purchase of one.

Sir John Forrest, P.C., G.C.M.G., D.C.L., M.H.R., Federal Minister of Defence, on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the Fremantle Trades Hall, 26th March.

"[9]The building was opened on 23 January 1904 before a large crowd in a ceremony led by the mayor of North Fremantle, E. Gilleland.