Georgie Girl Hair Salon (Formerly The Town Hall)

Following significant population growth, largely associated with its status as a market town, parish leaders in Haltwhistle decided to commission a town hall. The site they selected was at the east end of the town on the north side of Main Street. The building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1861. Internally, the principal rooms were a police station and a mechanics' institute on the ground floor, and an assembly room, capable of accommodating 350 people, on the first floor. There was also a library with approximately 1,000 books. The assembly room was used for concerts and theatrical performances, and was regularly used as the venue for…

The two-storey building is constructed of sandstone, and has a slate roof. It is seven bays wide, and has a rusticated ground floor, with three four-panel doors with voussoirs, and three segmental headed sash windows also with voussoirs. The first floor is fenestrated by sash windows with architraves and window sills, above which there are heavy cornices. At roof level, there is a cornice supported by moulded stone brackets and a central segmentally-pedimented gablet, which formerly contained a clock.