The town hall, which currently serves as one of two meeting places of Erewash Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

[3] These facilities were deemed inadequate and a site for a new building was selected which was, at that time, occupied a row of thatched cottages.

[4] The new building, which was designed by Richard Charles Sutton of Nottingham in the Italianate style and built by William Warner of Ilkeston, was officially opened on 6 February 1868.

[5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the Market Place; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a recessed rounded headed doorway flanked by brackets supporting a balcony.

[2] Following the grant of a Royal Charter, the town hall became the headquarters of the Municipal Borough of Ilkeston in 1887.