[1] The first municipal building in Painswick was a structure on the south side of Victoria Square close to St Mary's Parish Church on a site known as "Jumbles Den".

[2] The building, known as the "Stock House", included a school and a lock-up for petty criminals and was completed in 1628.

[4] The old Stock House was duly demolished and, re-purposed as a garden: in 1920, it became the site of a new war memorial, designed by F. L. Griggs in the form of a shaft with an octagonal head to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who had died in the First World War.

[1] In the late 20th century, the author, Laurie Lee, who wrote the autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War, was a frequent visitor to receptions held in the town hall.

[7] Following the closure of the old public library on the east side of Stroud Road in December 2009, a major refurbishment of the town hall took place in spring 2012,[8] and a new community library, established with financial support from Gloucestershire County Council, opened on the first floor of the building in May 2012.