[1] After town commissioners were appointed in 1842, one of their early actions was to identify a suitable meeting place: initially they met in the old Plough Hotel in the High Street and then, from 1848, in a Wesleyan Chapel.

[4] The original design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Walliscote Grove Road (the left hand section of the current structure); the central bay featured an arched doorway with an elaborate carved pediment with twin round headed windows on the first floor and an oculus above.

[1] The town hall was extended to the north along Walliscote Grove Road to a design by Hans Price in 1897: the central section, which projected forward, involved an arcaded porte-cochère with four round headed windows on the first floor, flanked by Corinthian order columns, and a pediment above.

[1] It also involved a tall clock tower, set back from the front of the building,[1][5] with bells cast by Llewellyns of Bristol.

[6] A large modern red-brick extension was built behind the town hall for use by Woodspring District Council in the 1970s.