New buildings for the County and Magistrates' Court, as well as a new police station and the existing library, formed a small administrative quarter.

The architect, Alfred Brumwell Thomas, apparently submitted an earlier design, rejected in a 1902 competition for Deptford Town Hall.

[5] The official opening of the town hall took place, without royal presence at the insistence of Woolwich Council, in January 1906.

Instead Labour MP Will Crooks did the opening speech, while the first bishop of Woolwich, John Leeke blessed the building.

The Wellington Street façade features an imposing entrance of Portland stone with a colonnade and "broken" pediments.

In the centre of the building, accessed via the Market Street entrance, is a public hall, seating 750 people.

[12] Stained-glass windows throughout the building depict historic events in the parishes of Woolwich, Plumstead and Eltham, for example the entertaining of three foreign kings in Eltham Palace in 1374, the launching of the ship Henry Grace à Dieu at Woolwich Dockyard in 1514, and portraits of Thomas More, Margaret Roper and Samuel Pepys.