[3] It was a plain white building embellished over the centuries with a Venetian window, a turret clock, a bell cote and a flagpole.

[3][a] In 1859, after the moot hall was deemed inadequate, the civic authorities acquired the current building at the corner of Highgate and Lowther Street.

[2] It was so called because the site had previously been occupied by an earlier White Hall, where cloth was bought and sold, some of it for export to Virginia and other parts of the United States.

[2] The building was converted for use as a town hall by George Webster, the original architect's son, after which it was used as the local facility for dispensing justice as well as a meeting place for the municipal borough of Kendal.

In 1991 the council moved to a new building called South Lakeland House, immediately behind Kendal Town Hall, on a site formerly occupied by a police station.