The civic centre, which is the headquarters of Hillingdon London Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

[2][3] Middlesex County Council built itself an office building adjoining Southfields in 1939 which also included a library and clinic, with plans to later extend the building onto the site of Southfields to include a town hall and municipal offices for Uxbridge Urban District Council too.

[9][10][11][12] It was planned from 1970 and the construction work, which was undertaken by Higgs and Hill at a cost of £5.6 million, started in January 1973.

[8] The main frontage to the public areas, facing onto the High Street, featured a loggia with eight entrances and a steep roof, with a two-storey block with a clock tower behind.

He concluded that “the proudly vaunting philistinism which has afflicted Britain for three decades found its first architectural expression at Hillingdon.”[17] A distinctive yew wood sculpture, designed by John Phillips, made up of fourteen pieces of wood suspended on a wire rope, was hung in the stairwell leading up to council chamber.