[1][2] A single storey extension, designed by the county architect, Ralph Crowe, was added to the Shirehall, to accommodate the assizes and the local quarter session hearings, in 1967.

[8] The new building was designed in the Modernist style, built by M. A. Boswell (Contractors) in buff brick at a cost of £2.6 million and was completed in 1994.

There was a doorway with a canopy at ground floor level in the second bay on the left and there was a single storey lean-to structure projecting from the centre of the main frontage.

[13] It was subsequently converted for use as a crown court and as a venue for social security case hearings at a cost of £5 million,[14][15] and was officially re-opened by the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, Dame Julia Macur, as the Shrewsbury Justice Centre on 12 April 2019.

[16] Notable cases have included the trial and conviction of Darren Paisley and Serena Sibson-Bartram, in April 2022, for child neglect.