[3] The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the wife of a member of the local board, John Gaitskell Churton, on 6 September 1888.

[2] It was designed by David Walker of Liverpool in the Queen Anne style, built by William Pritchard of Little Neston in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £2,000 and was completed in February 1889.

[8] The new Neston Urban District Council took ownership of the building from the original private company in 1934, but the building ceased to be local seat of government when the enlarged Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council was formed in 1974.

[6] On 23 March 2018, a paving stone was laid outside the town hall to commemorate the life of the locally-born soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Bushell of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Tergnier in France in March 1918 during the First World War.

[12][13] Works of art in the town hall include two landscape paintings by unknown artists.