The town or moot hall was located on the N side of the marketplace near the junction of Rickergate and Fisher Streets.

ca. 1560 'Entered by an external flight of steps up to its first floor, it was one of the few secular buildings in the city to be built on more than one storey. The council would have met on the upper storey, perhaps in the room clearly shown to have had a leaded glass window, as would the city court, while the ground floor would have been occupied by shops, as in the fifteenth century, or perhaps by a lock-up for unsuccessful litigants, or both' (Summerson, Medieval Carlisle 2.698).