The town hall, which is the meeting place of Great Yarmouth Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

[2] A dedicated town hall, designed in the neoclassical style with a full-height tetrastyle portico, was built on the quayside and completed in 1716.

[6] It was designed by John Bond Pearce in the Queen Anne Revival style, was built with terracotta facings and was officially opened by the Prince of Wales on 31 May 1882.

[1][7][8] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto a small side street off Regent Street; the third bay from the right featured an arched doorway flanked by brackets supporting a balcony; there was a round headed sash window on the first floor flanked by a bartizan on the left and a pilaster on the right, with a sash window on the second floor and a 110 feet (34 m) high clock tower with a lantern above.

[1] The assembly hall was described at the time of the official opening as "one of the finest interiors in Eastern England and a measure, like the entire building, of the town's prosperity in the late 19th century.