The town hall, which was the headquarters of Huntingdon Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

[2] The current building was designed by Benjamin Timbrell in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with stone dressings and was completed in 1745.

[2] After the First World War, a war memorial in the form of a bronze statue of a soldier was designed by the sculptor, Kathleen Scott and erected in front of the town hall by the local contractor, Thackray and Co; the statue, which became known as "the Thinking Soldier", was unveiled by the Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire, the Earl of Sandwich, on 11 November 1923.

[10] Although the district council relocated to modern facilities at Pathfinder House in St Mary's Street in Huntingdon in 1977,[11] the town hall continued to be used as a meeting place by Huntingdon Town Council[12] and, following a major programme of refurbishment works costing £0.9 million which was completed in 2012,[13] the building became an approved location for marriages and civil partnership ceremonies.

[14] Works of art in the town hall include a portrait by John Shackleton of King George II[15] and by Gainsborough Dupont of Queen Caroline,[16] as well as portraits by Allan Ramsay of King George III[17] and of Queen Charlotte.