The Lord Wakehurst KCMG, Governor of New South Wales, on 12 October 1940.

[1] The building was designed by then-local architect Douglas Gardiner, who became a Melbourne-based partner of Bates Smart & McCutcheon after World War II.

It is built of face brick detailed with stone at copings and around window architraves.

[3] The hall's interiors have elaborate art deco style plaster details to it walls and ceiling.

The building is listed on local government heritage register within the New South Wales Heritage Database as "a fine representative example of a late inter-war stripped classical building with functionalist influences".