The structure, which was the main civic venue for the town, is a Grade II listed building.

The new building was designed by George Briand in the Italianate style, built in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £1,700 and was completed in 1851.

[6] Following significant population growth, largely associated with the status of Chertsey as a market town, the area became an urban district in 1894.

[11] The town hall also made a fleeting appearance in the 1964 classic film, First Men in the Moon, when it stood in for Dymchurch Town Hall,[12] and it served as the home of the Chertsey Museum from its formation in 1965[4] until its relocation to The Cedars in Windsor Street in 1972.

[13] The importance of the building as a civic amenity declined following the formation of the enlarged Runnymede Borough Council in 1974.