The oldest part of the facility, the curved former municipal offices and adjoining concert hall of 1932, is a Grade II listed building.

[3] The vestry hall was designed by George Elkington in the Gothic style, completed in 1875 and was extended to accommodate the headquarters of the new Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham in 1901.

[4] During the Second World War, an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the bombing of Sandhurst Road School by enemy aircraft on 20 January 1943, which resulted in deaths of 38 children and 6 staff, was held in the town hall.

[5] A further extension in the form of a long curved block of offices to the north west was designed by the borough architect, Maurice Forward, in the Modernist style and built in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

[7] A local activist, 13-year-old William Norton, had led a petition which was supported by John Betjeman to save the original vestry hall in August 1961.