Montgomery Town Hall

The first town hall in Montgomery was a medieval half-timbered structure, which a map drawn by the cartographer, John Speed, in 1610 shows was sited in the middle of Broad Street. In the mid-18th century, the Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire, Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, proposed demolishing the old building and replacing it. The new building was designed by William Baker of Audlem in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with stone dressings, and was completed in 1751. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing east down Broad Street, although the centre of the building was offset to the line of the street. The building was arcaded on the ground…