Rochdale Town Hall

Absolutely beautiful. Had a guided tour conducted by George. His passion, knowledge and good humour was top quality, matching the history with intricate details that would have been missed otherwise. In today’s terms, the cost to build it in 1871, is equivalent to nearly £19 million and it is easy to see by the materials used throughout. You can visit and look around without a guide but £9pp is well worth it. Crede!

One of the most beautiful buildings I have ever visited!! Stunning exterior and interior and free to visit. Includes a restaurant and gift shop. The tour was amazing too and really informative.

Looks absolutely amazing after going through renovations. Perfect for weddings. Registration setvice in the main hall looks amazing. Hall upstairs can hold a very decent wedding.

What an amazing building full of local history. I recommend the tour. Our guide, Richard was full of knowledge and knew every inch of the building. The restaurant is also fantastic serving some great food.

Beautiful and historical building and now even better for being done up. With the paving and new plaza out the front, it's finally in the setting it deserves. The tour was fascinating, thoroughly recommend. It's going to be even more stunning when the gardens at the back and the town hall steps are finished. clock started again binging perfectly !

A beautifully restored building with lots of rich history. There's always something to see or do, lots of events take place in and around this historic building.

Just fabulous that this amazing building, a real high point of Victorian architecture, has been so sensitively restored and is so open and accessible to all. I spent a great couple of hours (!) talking to Ann and some of the other volunteer guides here, and it is a truly welcoming and beautiful place. It's a famous building, and I think the approach that Rochdale is taking might make it world-renowned and act as a catalyst for the regeneration of the town as a whole. It really does feel as though good things are happening here.

Fantastic! The tour with Ray was fascinating, he made everything interesting and memorable. The town hall really does have the WOW factor. Worth every penny of the tour price (£8). You can get tickets on their website. The car park was closed, parked in the shopping centre, ten mins walk. Highly recommend this tour.

TL;DR - A truly stunning building, and free to visit! After a long refurbishment, Rochdale Town Hall is open to the public once more. There is a paid tour, but it's also free to wander around on your own which is what we did. The ground floor features a small exhibition area on the history of the building, and a series of restored rooms used by officials for meetings and events. The ground floor is also home to the new "Martlet Kitchen" restaurant which we didn't sample but which got an amazing review from Jay Rayner in The Guardian. The real magic is upstairs though - the main hall is an absolutely stunning space and the ornate ceiling takes your breath away. Even though we didn't go on the tour, the volunteers staffing the hall were very friendly and told us lots about the restoration of the space, pointing out details and telling us things we'd have missed otherwise. A real gem of a building, free to visit, fascinating history and an outstanding restaurant on site. Why wouldn't you visit?

Rochdale Town Hall was built in 1871, at the moment it is closed due to an extensive renovation project. Recently the town hall and surrounding street has been excavated by Salford Archaeology. in June 2021 the unit invited local residents to take part in a community archaeological project. The outcome So far the archaeologist have uncovered, bottles, other relics linked to businesses known to be in operation on Packer Street , also animal bones from butchers and heels from bootmakers and seashells, whelks and mussels possibly from the 1850's onward . Packer Street was a main route in the medieval period... particularly for the wool trade the town is famous for. There are possible 17th-century remains underneath Town Hall Square, the basements and latrines were uncovered which date from the 18th century. The town hall has also been used for TV dramas, for example..Peaky Blinders,whe in one episode it was used to emulate the interior of the Houses of Parliment. The most recent production was for the Netflix series titled Munich: The Edge Of War' starring Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlin...Regarding when the town hall will open..watch this sapce..