In 1768, the building was extensively altered to a design by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, with the structure being encased in brick, and a second storey added.

It was designed by Henry Cheers in the Edwardian Baroque style, built in red brick with stone dressings and completed in 1888.

However, in 1967, the town hall ceased to be the local seat of government, when the area was subsumed within Ludlow Rural District, the headquarters of which was at Stone House in Corve Street.

The design involves an asymmetrical main frontage of six bays facing onto Mill Street.

The entrance is on the centre left, and is formed by a pair of Doric order columns supporting an entablature with triglyphs: it is described by the architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner, as "exceedingly pretty".