Old Town Hall, Needham Market

The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Needham Market, Suffolk, England.

[3][4] The building was designed by Frederick Barnes in the Italianate style, built by a local contractor, H. Godfrey, in red and buff bricks at a cost of £1,300 and was completed in late 1866.

At roof level, there was a parapet and a modillioned cornice, while the corners were decorated by full-height piers surmounted by small pediments.

[6] The architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner, was unimpressed with the design and referred to it as "a sad building of yellow and red brick with lean round arches".

[8] During the Second World War, the town hall narrowly missed being demolished on 19 October 1942 when a German bomb fell on a site just to the south of the building, killing four civilians and injuring many more.