The building, which served as the offices and meeting place of Middleton Borough Council, is currently vacant.

The original Parkfield House was commissioned by a local magistrate, Thomas Ashton, in the first half of the 19th century.

[4] Heywood became the first mayor of the new borough council, which was initially based at the old town hall in Gas Street.

[5] After Heywood died in 1920, his widow, Harriette, sold the original Parkfield House to Middleton Borough Council for use as its headquarters in 1925.

[2] A garden of remembrance with a colonnade was established on the west side of the original house in the presence of Lieutenant Colonel Roderick Livingstone Lees of the 6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers in October 1927.