[1] Letchworth was developed in the early 20th century based on the ideas of the social reformer, Ebenezer Howard, and the master-planners, Richard Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, around a boulevard known as Broadway, which formed the diagonal southwest-northeast axis of the proposed garden city.

[3] In this context civic leaders decided to procure a town hall: the site they selected was open land on the east side of Broadway.

[5] The new building was designed by Robert Bennett and Wilson Bidwell in the Neo-Georgian style, built in red brick with stone dressings and completed in 1935.

[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with eleven bays facing the northeast corner of the Town Square with the wing sections slightly projected forward; the central section of five bays, featured a doorway with a fanlight flanked by Corinthian order pilasters supporting an open pediment on with a cartouche in the tympanum.

[10] After an extensive programme of restoration works to a design by Scott Brownrigg,[11] the building was re-opened as an administrative centre for North Hertfordshire College in 2013.