Ilkeston Town Hall

In the first half of the 19th century, civic meetings had been held in a room above the Butter Market in the lower Market Place and, from the 1840s, the local board of health met in a domestic house on East Street. These facilities were deemed inadequate and a site for a new building was selected which was, at that time, occupied a row of thatched cottages. The new building, which was designed by Richard Charles Sutton of Nottingham in the Italianate style and built by William Warner of Ilkeston, was officially opened on 6 February 1868. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the Market Place; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected…