The town hall, which is the meeting place of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, is a Grade II listed building.

[1] The design originally involved a symmetrical main frontage with just three bays facing onto the Glebe Street; it featured a large portico with three archways on the ground floor beneath four Ionic order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment.

[1] The outer bays in each of the two wings were slightly projected forward, enhanced with Ionic order pilasters on the first floor and pedimented as pavilions.

[13] In 2012 the city council announced its intention to relocate some of its staff back to Hanley but into a newly built facility there.

[14][15] After a programme of refurbishment works costing £1.5 million was completed in 2018, the register office moved from Hanley Town Hall into the newly-refurbished building in October 2020.