Old Market Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. Market-hall.

Old Market Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1966
Type
Market-hall
Address
Old Market Hall, Queen Street, Bingley
OS grid reference
SE 106 391
Coordinates
53.84806, -1.83914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Market Hall is an open market hall built in the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a two-bay addition dated 1753. It is constructed of ashlar stone and has a stone slate roof. The building is a single storey with five bays, supported by square Doric columns on stylobates that hold up a hipped roof. At the junction with the Butter Cross, there is a walled end featuring a segmental-arched cart entry with tie-stone jambs, voussoirs with skewbacks, and a dated keystone. Inside, there is an oak king-post roof. The earliest part of the structure likely dates from shortly after 1693, when a second market charter was granted by William and Mary for a Monday market. The market hall, along with the Butter Cross and stocks, originally stood in the main street of Bingley but was moved to Prince of Wales Park in 1888. It was relocated to its current site around 1984, on land that was previously occupied by terrace houses that were demolished. Despite these moves, the Old Market Hall remains remarkably intact and well preserved.

Local climate

Old Market Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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