Hornsey Town Hall is a public building in Hatherley Gardens in the Crouch End area of Hornsey, London. The building was used by the Municipal Borough of Hornsey as its headquarters until 1965. It is a Grade II* listed building. History Early history In the late 19th century, the local board of health had used offices in Southwood Lane in Highgate, which had been specially built for them in May 1869. After Hornsey had become an urban district in 1894 and then been incorporated as a municipal borough in 1903, civic leaders decided this arrangement was inadequate for their needs and that they would procure a purpose-built town hall. The site selected for the new facility in Broadway had previously been occupied by properties known as Broadway Hall and Lake Villa. The foundation stone was laid by the mayor, Councillor William Grimshaw, on 29 November 1934. Hornsey Town Hall was the first major UK building to be constructed in the Modernist style. Designed by New Zealand born architect Reginald Uren for the Municipal Borough of Hornsey, the building shows the influence of Hilversum town hall in the Netherlands and the design was awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects. It was built by Gee, Walker & Slater and opened by the Duke and Duchess of Kent on 4 November 1935. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto a small courtyard in Hatherley Gardens with a wing of six bays enclosing the courtyard to the right; the main frontage featured wide steps leading up to three doorways with a canopy above on the ground floor; there were seven tall windows on the first floor with a wrought-iron balcony in front of the central three windows. A tall tower with a flag pole was erected at the corner of the courtyard. Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber, the mayor's parlour and the committee room. The building continued to be the headquarters of the Municipal Borough of Hornsey for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government when the London Borough of Haringey was formed in 1965. The town hall was used instead for concerts and even hosted the singer, Freddie Mercury, in February 1971. In 1981, it became one of the first of the buildings constructed in the 1930s to achieve listed building status. Redevelopment