The structure, which operates as a community events venue, is a Grade II listed building.

The assembly room was supported by fifteen Doric order columns laid out in three rows.

The central bay featured a round headed doorway with voussoirs, set in a rusticated surround, with a tall round headed casement window with tracery on the first floor, and a gable above.

[8] The borough council, which had met in the main hall on the first floor, was abolished under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883.

[11] Rolls of honour to recognise local service personnel who had served in the First World War were installed in the building in 1920.