[2] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto the Haverstock Hill; the central section featured wide steps leading up to a doorway flanked with windows with integrated oculi on the ground floor; there were three tall round headed windows flanked by brick pilasters on the first floor with a pediment above.

[1] Alterations made in 1886, to a design by Frederick Mew, included a bell tower containing a staircase in the south west corner of the building.

[2] The suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, gave a speech in the hall in 1913, as did the politician Sir Oswald Mosley, in 1938, and the anti-racism campaigner David Pitt, in 1959.

[9] Instead it served as the local register office: notable weddings included the singer, Cleo Laine, to the musician, John Dankworth, in 1958, the actor, Dudley Moore, to the actress, Suzy Kendall, in 1968, and the actress, Judi Dench, to the actor, Michael Williams, in 1971, as well as the singer, Lulu, to hair stylist, John Frieda in 1976.

[11] However, it was subsequently restored and converted, to the designs of Burrell Foley Fischer, with the addition of a large glass atrium; it was re-opened for use as an arts centre by the Prince of Wales in 1999.