[2][4] In the late 19th century, the lord of the manor, the 1st Earl of Feversham of Duncombe Park, decided to commission a more substantial town hall for Helmsley:[5] the site he chose, on the west side of the Market Place, was occupied by a branch of the York and East Riding Bank.

[7] It was designed by Temple Moore in the Queen Anne style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1901.

There were four wide openings to the corn exchange on the ground floor and, in the right-hand bay, a doorway with a rusticated archivolt which provided access to a staircase leading to the assembly room.

There were four mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor and, in the right-hand bay, a French door with a wrought iron balcony.

[9] In 1958, the then lord of the manor, the 3rd Earl of Feversham, gave the building to the local parish council.