[4] It was designed by John Johnston in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with a stucco rendering by Thomas Ginn at a cost of £2,500 and completed in June 1830.

On the first floor, there was a sash window flanked by pairs of Ionic order columns supporting and an entablature and a pediment which originally contained a coat of arms in the tympanum.

[3] A gaol, large enough to hold four prisoners awaiting trial, was established at the rear of the town hall.

[4] Following significant population growth, partly associated with the expansion of the local silk weaving industry, the area became a municipal borough with the town hall as its headquarters in 1892.

[8] A tourist information centre was subsequently established in the building,[9] and the assembly room became the regular meeting place for Sudbury Town Council.