[1] The design involved a symmetrical curved frontage of fifteen bays forming municipal offices built in the Renaissance style to the west; this section, which contained the council chamber, featured a central section which was recessed with a doorway on the ground floor and a balcony and window on the first floor flanked by two huge Doric order columns.

[1] This arrangement was complemented by a rectangular assembly hall with four huge Doric order columns flanked by pavilions built in the Classical style to the east.

[3] In the Second World War, the building served as the local civil defence headquarters and was heavily camouflaged to protect it from enemy bombing during the London Blitz.

[3] The building was extensively refurbished and restored to a design by Hawkins\Brown in 2010:[7] the works, which cost £6.4 million,[8] included comprehensive repairs to the wooden panelling in the council chamber and the modernisation of the assembly hall.

[10][11] Works of art in the town hall include a portrait of the former mayor of Stoke Newington, Sir Herbert John Ormond, by Henry Scott Tuke.