The structure, which serves as meeting place of Milborne Port Parish Council, is a Grade II listed building.

[1] In 1770, the town hall was the venue for events involving an exploding squib which resulted in a landmark case, known formally as Scott v Shepherd and informally as the flying squib case, which helped establish the principles of remoteness, foreseeability, and intervening cause in modern common law torts (personal injury law).

[4] Milborne Port had a very small electorate and a dominant patron, Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, which meant it was recognised by the UK Parliament as a rotten borough.

[7] Sir William Coles Medlycott, 1st Baronet of Ven House took ownership of the town hall when he became the new lord of the manor in 1835.

[7] Then, in the 1880s, Sir William Coles Paget Medlycott, 3rd Baronet decided to use it as the venue for a museum of natural history artefacts that he had collected.