The market house was surrendered when the town was briefly captured by Dutch forces during the raid on the Medway in June 1667.

[2] There was no mention of Queenborough in the Treaty of Breda and a tradition was subsequently established that the market house had never formally been handed back to the town.

The central bay, which slightly projected forward, contained a Venetian window on the first floor and a parapet and a small pediment above.

[9][10][11] A public inquiry into proposals from Colonel H. F. Stephens for a light railway from Queenborough to Leysdown-on-Sea was held in the guildhall in April 1898.

[16] It was subsequently converted into a local history museum: the collection included a variety of exhibits associated with the minesweeper squadron which had been based at the town during the Second World War.