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Detached seven-bay three-storey former gaol, built 1796, retaining early fenestration with three-bay three-storey canted advanced entrance bay to centre having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced doorcase to centre, two-bay three-storey gabled flanking end bays, two-bay three-storey side elevations to north-east and to south-west, and three-bay three-storey return to rear to north-west. Extensively renovated, 1904, with façade remodelled in Italianate Classical style to accommodate use as town hall. Renovated, 1905, with right ground floor converted to use as Carnegie Free Library. Renovated, c.1990. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roofs behind parapet walls with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Replacement render, 1904, to ground floor front (south-east) elevation. Channelled. Painted. Roughcast walls to upper floors. Painted. Rendered dressings including stringcourses, paired pilasters to first floor and moulded surrounds to gables to flanking bays forming open bed pediments with scalloped course. Rendered profiled parapet wall to canted entrance bay on moulded cornice with clock on a triangular plan, recessed panels, inscribed date stone and moulded coping. Replacement roughcast, c.1990, to remainder. Unpainted. Cut-stone dressings to gables forming open bed pediments. Segmental-headed openings to ground floor. Rendered sills. Round-headed openings to first floor. Rendered sills and surrounds. Round-headed window openings to top floor in tripartite arrangement in round-headed recessed panels (continuing down to first floor). Rendered sills and surrounds. Paired round-headed window openings to top floor canted entrance bay. Rendered sills and surrounds. Timber casement windows to all openings. Square-headed openings to remainder. Stone sills. 2/2 and 6/6 timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening. Rendered advanced doorcase with stringcourse, pierced frieze and moulded rendered cornice. Glazed timber panelled doors. Road fronted. Tarmacadam footpath to front.
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