The town hall, which was the meeting place of Lynton Urban District Council, is a grade II* listed building.

[3] In this context civic leaders decided to procure a town hall: the site selected was open ground to the west of the parish rectory.

[4] The cost of the proposed building was financed by a donation from the publisher and politician, Sir George Newnes, who owned a mansion known as Hollerday House which was located just behind the site.

[1] A bust of Newnes, designed and sculpted by Gilbert Bayes, was unveiled by the author, Arthur Conan Doyle, in the town hall in 1902.

[12] Another bust of Newnes, designed and sculpted by Carla Haseltine, was installed in a niche on the south west corner of the building in 2000.