[5] The current town hall was designed by William John Willcox of Bath in the Queen Anne style, built by Joseph Bird of Writhlington in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £877 and was completed in September 1878.

[13] Works of art in the town hall include a portrait by L. Swinnerton Dyer of the Speaker of the House of Commons and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Sir James Dyer,[14] who owned the rectory at Staplegrove rear Taunton and returned it to religious use.

[16][17] The building is designed in the Queen Anne style, in imitation of the work of the local architect, Nathaniel Ireson.

To the left of the tower is the east facing façade, which originally featured three round headed openings with Gibbs surrounds.

A dormer vent in the centre of the roof was presented by Captain Benjamin Morton Festing of the Royal Navy.