1758--9 'They have a very elegant town hall, lately repaired by the corporation at a considerable expence' (Nicolson and Burn History and Antiquities 72). The building was 'greatly heightened and adorned by new windows' including a large 'Venetian' window, and featured prominent quoins and a cornice at the height of the neighbouring roofs. The heightened building incorporated a bell cote and a three-dialed clock. The 'old oaken gallery that used to run along Mercer's Lane was removed' (Curwen Kirkbie Kendall 292).

1859 A new Town Hall was established at the former White Hall assembly rooms to the N and the old Town Hall was sold by auction. A newspaper advertisement for the auction in The Westmorland Gazette and Kendal Advertizer itemised the layout of the building: 'Two Spacious Rooms; the one forming the Court House, fourteen feet six inches in height, in length forty-six feet, and in breadth nineteen feet three inches; and the other, nineteen feet square. The above rooms are wainscoted to the height of five feet from the floor; underneath the above are Three small Rooms; and in the Attic, above the Court House, is a Closet, the access to which is from the Court House. In the Court House there is a Gallery which has formed the Jury Box...and a flight of Steps, forming the approach to the Jury Box'

1860s--1960s Building used as a store.

1969 Destroyed by arson. The rebuilding, a modern replica of the 1758--9 design, incorporated the 18th c. Venetian window and an approximation of the bell cote.