Cattle Market Refreshment Rooms

The Cattle Market Refreshment Rooms, built around 1871-72 and designed by architect John Breedon Everard, is a single-storey red brick building with a cruciform layout. It features a slate hipped roof with very wide eaves, supported by ornate cast-iron brackets, and decorative iron cresting along the eaves. The building has round-arch windows and depressed pointed arch doorways, all adorned with moulded brick and keystones in the arches, as well as a continuous stone string course at the impost level. At the center of the structure is a tall clock tower, which is gabled and has shaped bargeboards. Above the clock face is an arched drip-mould, with carved foliage at the impost level and a head of cattle projecting from each corner. The clock tower is topped with a louvred bell-turret and a square spire that features an elaborate wind-vane. To the west is a restaurant building that is similar in style but square in plan and does not have a clock tower.