The new building was designed in the neoclassical style, probably by Sir William Chambers,[3] built in ashlar stone extracted from a quarry at Black Bourton by masons, James Gulliver and William Harris, and was completed in 1786.

[2] However, after the area was advanced to the status of urban district in 1895,[5] the new civic leaders decided to hold their meetings in the Corn Exchange, rather than the town hall.

[2][a] Once the local borough courts ceased operating in 1925, the town hall fell vacant.

[2] Following the local government re-organisation in 1974,[9] which saw the abolition of Witney Urban District Council, the new parish level body, Witney Town Council, chose to refurbish the town hall at a cost of £15,000 and made the building its main meeting place.

[2][10] These works also saw the removal of the public toilets on the ground floor and the creation of a town clerk's office.