Following significant population growth, largely associated with the mining industry, a local board of health was established in Huyton-with-Roby in 1877.

[1] Meetings of the local board were held at Huyton and Roby schools in Dam House Lane (now Rupert Road), but after the local board was succeeded by Huyton with Roby Urban District Council in 1895, the new council established its offices in a large redbrick building designed in the Victorian style on the east side of Derby Road.

The old council offices and surrounding buildings were then demolished to make way for the Sherborne Square Shopping Centre.

The site the council selected was open land on the east side of Archway Road.

[8] The new building was designed under the supervision of the town surveyor, Henry Kay Pilkinton,[9] in the Modern style and was officially opened in November 1963.