The current Barking Town Hall is a 1958 building in restrained civic neo-Georgian — symmetrical brick wings, a portico, and a slim copper-clad spire. Designed by Herbert Jackson and Reginald Edmonds, it took two decades to complete after the original architects' plans were repeatedly delayed by the Second World War.
It is the working seat of Barking and Dagenham Council, and the square in front of it — Town Square — has been re-landscaped twice in the last twenty years as part of the town-centre regeneration. The interior is not open to casual visitors, but the building is the centrepiece of central Barking and the natural starting point for a walk through the town.