[1] The first town hall in Lampeter, which was commissioned by the lord of the manor and partner in Harford Bank of Bristol, Richard Hart Davis,[2] was designed by Peter Frederick Robinson and completed in 1818.

[3][4] Davis got into financial difficulty in 1819 and sold his estate, which included the town hall, to his son-in-law, John Scandrett Harford, of Blaise Castle in 1820.

[5] On the first floor, there were three large mullioned windows, each of which were flanked by quoins, and there was a central wrought iron balcony supported by stone brackets.

[8] The main hall was used once a year for the quarter sessions:[9] it was the venue for the trial of Captain William Killick who was accused and eventually acquitted of the attempted murder of the poet, Dylan Thomas, in March 1945.

[11] The Lord Chancellor's Department announced the closure of the building as a venue for magistrates' court hearings with effect from December 1994.