The town hall, which serves as a meeting place for Barnet London Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

[1] In the late 19th century the local board of health had held its meetings at the Hendon Union Workhouse in the Burroughs.

[2] The new building, which was designed by Thomas Henry Watson in the Pre-Renaissance style and was built by Kingerlee and Sons,[4] was officially opened by the then chairman of the council, F.W.

[2] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto the Burroughs; the central section featured a porte-cochère flanked by Doric order columns on the ground floor; there were three mullion windows flanked by oriel windows on the first floor; on the roof a timber lantern with a weather vane was erected.

[6] Margaret Thatcher made her first speech as Prime Minister at the town hall in May 1979[7] and she returned to unveil a statue entitled the Family of Man by Itzhak Ofer in 1981.