[3] The building was designed by the local architect, John Elliot Reeve, in the neoclassical style, built in stone with a stucco finish and was completed in 1872.

[3][4][5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the High Street; the central bay, which projected forward, featured a porch with Ionic order columns supporting an entablature inscribed with the words "Town Hall" and the date of construction.

[1] On the first floor, there was an aedicula formed by a balcony, bearing the town's coat of arms, and pairs of Corinthian order columns supporting a modillioned pediment.

[3] The town hall was the venue where the politician, Randolph Churchill, made his first campaign speech in the Wavertree by-election in January 1935: he spoke to an audience of 500 people earning enthusiastic applause but he failed to secure the seat.

[6][7][8] People whose births were registered in the town hall included the singer, George Harrison, who was born in Wavertree in February 1943,[9] and, in autumn 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney performed at the town hall as The Quarrymen, a rock and roll band which later evolved into The Beatles.