[5] The council's offices also outgrew the limited space at the corn exchange and were subsequently distributed to various buildings across the town.

[8] After Kettering Grammar School relocated from its premises at Bowling Green Road to new premises at Windmill Avenue in 1965,[9] the council took the opportunity to acquire the vacant building in Bowling Green Road to bring its offices and meeting place together in a single building.

The building had been designed by John Alfred Gotch in the Neo-Georgian style, built in red brick with stone facings and had been completed in 1913.

The other bays in the central section featured tall casement windows flanked by Doric order columns, spanning the ground and first floors, and which supported a stone frieze, a brick entablature and a cornice.

[10] A plaque was placed on the eastern end bay to reflect the twinning agreement that the council had entered into with Lahnstein in Germany a few years previously.