The structure, which is used for retail purposes and as an events venue, is a grade II listed building.

[1] The first municipal building in Leyburn was a tollbooth in the Market Place; it was primarily used for the collection of market rents and dated back to the grant of a charter for a fortnightly fair by King Charles II to the lord of the manor, the 6th Marquess of Winchester, in 1684.

[8] In the late 19th century, large social events were regularly held in the assembly hall; such events included a series of annual balls organised by the local company of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment in the late 1880s.

[9] A memorial in the form of a celtic cross, commissioned to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who had died in the First World War, was erected outside the town hall in 1920[10][11] and, during the Second World War, the 11th Battalion of the North Riding Home Guard established a shooting range inside the building.

[12] Although the ground floor was converted to retail use and was occupied by a local homewares business, Wray & Co., in the 1970s,[13] the assembly room continued to be made available for community events: the Wensleydale School held a debate, which was attended by the future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, there in September 2018.