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The Barclays Bank building was once Whitchurch's Town Hall.
The first floor was an Assembly Room with space for a Market and Corn Exchange below.
In 1851 the Town Hall was described as "a spacious building of brick with stone finishings and supported by stone pillars".
In 1874 a new purpose-built Town Hall and Market Hall opened further along High Street (where the modern Civic Centre is today).
Two years later the Midland Banking Company took over part of the old Market Hall, filling in the space between the large windows and the stone pillars. The remainder of the ground floor was enclosed and used as a building for housing the town's Volunteer Fire Brigade's fire engine.
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