[1] The first town hall was a small square structure in Mercer Row which incorporated a lock-up for petty criminals and was completed in 1597.

[2][3] In the early 1850s, after finding the guildhall inadequate, civic leaders decided to procure a new town hall on a site known as the Stall Yard.

[5] It was designed by Pearson Bellamy in the Palazzo style, built by a local contractor, John Dales, in red brick and ashlar stone at a cost of £5,927 and was completed in 1854.

[7] There was an incident at the town hall in 1910, when during a speech being given by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer and future Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, two suffragettes, Edith Hudson and Bertha Brewster, conducted a protest and were arrested.

[10] The district council transferred the management of the town hall to a not-for-profit entity known as the Louth Community Education Trust in 2012.