The structure, which was the meeting place of Ellesmere Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the High Street; there were three round headed rooms on the ground floor, three sash windows on the first floor, and at roof level, there was a pediment with a wide overhang and a clock in the tympanum.

[1] The assembly room was refurbished at the expense of Earl Brownlow in 1878 and, after the markets moved to the new market hall in Scotland Street in 1879,[3] the arcading was infilled with glass and a free reading room was established on the ground floor of the building in 1884.

[4] An Iron Age canoe dating back to around 500 BC, which had been found in Whattal Moss, a forest just south of Colemere, in 1864, was placed on display in a small local history museum, which formed part of the reading room, in the late 19th century.

[10] The old town hall was subsequently marketed for sale and was put to a variety of uses, briefly operating as a restaurant,[11] before being converted into the offices of an estate agent.