[3] In the early 1930s, civic leaders decided to procure a more substantial structure: the site they chose on the south side of Hamilton Terrace was occupied by allotment gardens.

[4] The new building was designed in the Neo-Georgian style, was built in brown brick with stone facings and was officially opened by the former Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, on 31 August 1939.

There was a cast iron balcony with a French door flanked by two tall windows on the first floor and a modillioned pediment above with a clock in the tympanum.

The outer sections were fenestrated with square headed sash windows on both floors and featured a modillioned cornice at roof level.

[7] A drinking fountain, which had been cast by the Saracen Foundry in the form of a font and inscribed with the words "erected in the sixtieth year of H.M. Queen Victoria's Reign 1897" as part of celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, was relocated from Charles Street to the front of the town hall shortly after it opened.