[2] It was a large house, designed in the late Victorian style, built red brick and completed in the early 20th century.

[3] The design involved a broadly symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto Station Road.

[5] The building was later used to accommodate the borough engineer's department, the register office and, from 1951, the local public library.

[11] The new building was designed in the modern style, built in brown brick at a cost of £1.5 million and was officially opened by the Duchess of Gloucester on 7 April 2004.

The fourth and eighth bays were also projected forward, fenestrated in a similar style and surmounted by pyramid-shaped roofs.