[2] The new building, the eastern section of the current complex, was designed by Caesar Augustus Long in the Italianate style, built by John Perry of Stratford and completed in 1866.

[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Old Street; the central section featured a tetrastyle porch with Ionic order columns on the ground floor; there were windows interspersed with Corinthian order columns and pilasters on the first floor and a large pediment above.

[4] On 12 November 1888 the inquest into the death of Mary Jane Kelly, the last victim of the Whitechapel murders, was held in the building.

[10] It was subsequently used as a venue for boxing and other events and in 1969 Ulric Regis died from brain injuries soon after being outpointed by Joe Bugner at the town hall.

[2] After a period of neglect, it passed into the ownership of the newly formed Shoreditch Town Hall Trust in 1997.