[2] After the Leete Hall became dilapidated, it was demolished and replaced by the Assembly Rooms which were designed by Alfred Lockwood in the neoclassical style and completed in 1849.

[7] It was designed by Frederick Andrew Roberts in the Edwardian Baroque style, built in red brick with stone facings and was officially opened on 1 October 1912.

There was a stone balcony and a round headed French door on the first floor flanked by Ionic order columns and banded pilasters supporting an entablature.

At roof level, there was a modillioned cornice, a balustraded parapet, a central segmental pediment and a square cupola with aediculae and a dome on a hexagonal base.

[12] A public square created just to southwest of the town hall to commemorate the life of the novelist, Daniel Owen, was re-opened, following a major-revamp, in October 2015.