[4] It was designed by Thomas Lawrence Lewis of Swansea in the neoclassical style, built by James Webb of Hay-on-Wye in rubble masonry at a cost of £700 and was completed in 1878.

[3][5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the corner of Hay Road and The Bank; there was a round headed opening with voussoirs and a wrought iron gate in the central bay on the ground floor, three segmental headed windows with voussoirs on the first floor and a central oculus in the gable above.

[1] A central clock turret with an ogee-shaped dome and a finial was installed as part of the celebrations for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.

[6] In August 1918, at the start of the First World War, a recruiting event was held in the town hall: 20 young men immediately enlisted.

[8] Another plaque, intended to commemorate the gold medal won by the locally-born table tennis player, Rob Davies, at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, was unveiled in the town hall in November 2016.