The town hall was commissioned and paid for by a local potato businessman, William Dennis, to commemorate the Coronation of George V and Mary.

[3] It was designed by Henry Kidd in the Châteauesque style, built in red brick and was officially opened by Baroness von Eckardstein[a] in August 1912.

[5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Station Road.

The central bay, which slightly projected forward, featured a two-stage tower; there was a doorway flanked by pilasters supporting a foundation stone and a pediment in the first stage, two small pedimented windows in the second stage and a mansard roof and an iron crown above.

[7] A statue to commemorate the life of the benefactor, William Dennis, was designed by Philip Lindsey Clark and was unveiled in front of the town hall in 1930.