The town hall, which is the headquarters of Haringey London Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

[2] The new building was designed by Sir John Brown, A E Henson and Partners and was officially opened by the local member of parliament, Joyce Butler, as Wood Green Civic Centre on 15 March 1958.

[1] Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber behind the glass frontage on the first floor and the mayor's parlour in the west wing of the building.

[1] The council chamber was designed with an unusual suspended ceiling which sloped down to the back of dais on which the mayor sat.

[7] An underground nuclear fall-out shelter was established in the basement but a public hall, which had been intended for the site, was never built.