The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.
[2] After the old market hall became dilapidated in the mid-19th century, the then lord of the manor, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hanmer, decided to commission a new structure.
[5] The new building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £1,182 and was completed in 1851.
[7] In 1894, the area was advanced to the status of urban district[8] and, in 1897, Joseph Truman Mills, became lord of the manor.
[9] In February 1914, just before the start of the First World War, the town hall became the temporary home of a detachment of B Company, the 5th (Territorial) Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment,[10] and, in 1918, Mills agreed to sell the building to the Leighton Buzzard Urban District Council for use as a fire station.