Shoreham Town Hall

Shoreham Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England.

[3] In the 1820s, a local landowner, George Henry Hooper,[4] decided to augment his estate by erecting a new customs house:[5] the site he selected had been occupied by a mansion owned by the Poole family.

[1] The original design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the High Street: the middle bay featured a doorway with brackets supporting a canopy bearing Royal coat of arms of King William IV on the ground floor and a three-light casement window on the first floor.

[1] After the customs office moved to Southwick in 1880, the building was acquired by the local board of health, which had previously been using premises in East Street; after conversion for municipal use, it was officially re-opened by the member of parliament for Lewes, Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, as Shoreham Town Hall on 18 August 1890.

[5] Following significant population growth, mainly associated with seaside tourism, the area became an urban district, with the town hall as its headquarters, in 1910.