The site he selected was on the west side of London Street, adjacent to the White Hart Inn.

[a] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto London Street.

[4] The council was initially based at the Shirehall[5] but, in the early 1950s, civic leaders decided that they needed a dedicated building for their offices and meeting place.

[12] Works of art in the town hall include a landscape painting by Samuel John Carter, depicting horses drinking at a local farm.

[14] There is also a display about the author, Captain W. E. Johns, who, after serving as a local sanitary inspector, created the fictional air-adventurer Biggles,[15] and there are some items which belonged to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson, 3rd Baronet, who served as First Sea Lord shortly before the First World War.