The Old Town Hall

The town hall was built on the site of the old Assize house, which itself had been built as a central part of the old Brentwood market.

The building was designed by William Gibbs Bartleet, an architect originally from Birmingham who had moved to Brentwood in about 1860. It was a brick building fronted in stone with columns rising to a pointed pediment in neo-classical style. A clock hung over the street with the words 'Town' and 'Hall' either side, the clock was illuminated at night, and inside was a large hall, committee and reading rooms.

As Brentwood continued to grow, the offices in the town hall were clearly not large enough for the amount of people needed in the council, and some new offices were built on Ingrave road in 1926 - the town hall remaining in use as the main town hall. In the 1950s these offices on Ingrave Road were demolished, and a larger building built on their site. This ultimately became the new town hall and in 1963 this older town hall was demolished.