[1] Following significant population growth, largely associated with the proximity of the township to the Liverpool Docks, an improvement act for Toxteth Park, which contemplated the construction of public offices, was enacted in 1842[2] and a local board of health was formed in 1856.

[3] One of the first actions of the new board was to commission purpose-built public offices: the site they selected in High Park Street was in the midst of an extensive developing residential area.

[3] The new building was designed by Thomas Layland in the Italianate style, built in red sandstone at a cost of £6,500 and opened as the Toxteth Park Public Offices in 1866.

Internally, the principal room was the main assembly hall which featured decorative plasterwork involving garlands and a plaque depicting a stag which was donated by the Earl of Sefton.

[8] The building was then used by the Liverpool Police during the Second World War and was subsequently occupied by the Department of Health and Social Security until it fell vacant in 1994.