[1][2] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Derby Road; the central bay, which slightly projected forward, featured a doorway with a fanlight on the ground floor flanked by Doric order columns, narrow sash windows and Doric order pilasters all supporting an entablature and a pediment.

[1] The building passed down the Howitt family until it was acquired by the Reverend Francis Gawthorne for use as a vicarage in 1839 and then bought by the lace manufacturers, Joseph and Thomas Fletcher, in 1873.

[10] A bronze plaque, intended to commemorate the lives of soldiers from the Sherwood Foresters who died during the First World War, was attached to the front wall of the building.

[13] Following local government re-organisation in 1974,[14] the newly formed authority, Erewash Borough Council, split its operations between Ilkeston Town Hall and Long Eaton.

A large extension was added to Long Eaton Hall, being completed in 1991, comprising a modern office block with a curved aluminium and glass façade to the west of the original building.