The Fish Market

The Fish Market is a covered open-air market building located on Market Street in Preston. It was built in the early 20th century and is constructed from cast iron and steel, topped with a slate roof that features glazed panels. The building has a square plan and is covered by a three-span hipped roof that runs along a north-south axis. It is open-sided, functioning as a floating canopy supported by four columns at each end and one in the center of each side. The columns are square with panelled sides, adorned with attached anthemions and rosettes, and topped with heavily foliated caps. These columns support very deep trellis girders with ornamental bosses and long slender arch-braces that extend to deep oversailing eaves. The roof has long glazed panels on three slopes, and all ridges are accented with wrought-iron cresting. The Fish Market forms a group with the Covered Market.