Council meetings were initially held in the School of Arts building in Good Street, north of the railway line.

[1][3] In 1888 Granville Council decided to erect its own Town Hall to celebrate the centenary of European settlement in Sydney.

Architect Charles A. Harding of Sydney designed the Town Hall, and Banks and Whitehurst were selected to complete the building.

According to the press report, the Council Chamber was built on "true Australian lines in the matter of ventilation freely afforded by windows all around the room."

[1] The original 1888 section is a two-storey, rendered brick building on an almost square plan with a hipped corrugated iron roof.

The facade to Carlton Street is designed in the Italianate manner and features a two-storey projecting port and flanking piers with second-storey paired pilasters.

The auditorium or hall, added in 1900, is a plain painted brick gabled structure running westward behind the front section.

Internally the large hall is distinguished by restrained Doric pilasters supporting a panelled vault ceiling.

Restoration work undertaken in early 2003 by architect Graham Edds involved removing the modern plaster covering the walls and ceiling of the auditorium, and revealing an unusual ripple iron ceiling, painted pale blue with gold stars, and three large decorative ventilation domes.

[1] The current allotment covers an area of 2739.4 sqm and is located on a gentle sloping site fronting Carlton Street, Granville.

A driveway from Carlton Street located south of the Town Hall and between it and the former council workers office provides limited on-site vehicular access and car parking.

[1] In 1900 a main Hall or auditorium (designed by James Whitmore Hill) including a gallery, stage and two "retiring rooms" on one side with lavatory accommodation was constructed.

[1] This phase involved major additions to the western end of the main auditorium with the relocation of the stage and the two dressing rooms.

The 1928 works also included the infilling of the area beneath the gallery to extend the hall and create new toilets and a strong room.

The walls of some ground-floor rooms were offset clad with timber lining, presumably to cover damage from rising damp as well as provide another decoration phase although considered unsympathetic.

[1] The Granville Town Hall is of state significance as a rare and intact example of a Victorian Free Classical government building.

[1] Granville Town Hall was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 December 2003 having satisfied the following criteria.

The Granville Town Hall is locally significant for its associations with the following people of note:[1] The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.

The Granville Town Hall is of state significance as a rare and intact example of a Victorian Free Classical government building.

Its size, prominence and classical details indicate its public status as the seat of local government, and its façade is a confidently executed example of the Italianate Civic Palace style.

It has been the subject of conservation work by Parramatta City Council since 2000, reflecting the community's high regard for the building.

The auditorium of the Granville Town Hall has some technical significance as an early example of extant ripple iron ceiling combining ventilation domes and exhaust cowls to provide air circulation.

Granville Town Hall is of state significance in being a rare example of a Victorian Free Classical government building built in the nineteenth century.

Granville Town Hall is of state significance as a largely intact example of a council chambers building (1888) with an early auditorium (1900).