[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto St Augustine's Gate; the central bay, which slightly projected forward, featured a doorway with an architrave and a cornice on the ground floor, a sash window on the first floor and a small modillioned pediment above.

The outer bays were fenestrated with sash windows on both floors and featured a modillioned cornice above.

[1] Internally, the principal room was the courtroom which was also used as a council chamber; there was also a lock-up for incarcerating petty criminals.

[11] By the mid-1890s the lock-up was damp and deteriorating[12] and its use was discontinued in 1898, when a purpose-built police station was established in the Market Place.

[1] In July 1919, after the end of the First World War, a large crown assembled on the local cricket field and marched to the town hall as part of the "Peace Day" events.