Market Hall

MARKET PLACE 1. 1348 (North Side) Nos 2 to 5 (consec) TF 38 NW 1/193 II GV 2. Including Market Hall, Eastgate. One composition. 1866. Rogers and Marsden. Market Hall consists of a 3-storey tower in red brick with yellow dressings. Welsh slate roof with metal spire and weathervane. Yellow brick moulded cornice. Louvres in roof, clock in opening on top storey. Segmental-headed opening on 1st floor contains 2 trefoil-headed lancets with columned mullion with foliated capital. 2 lower lancet windows and arched entrance, pointed hood with finial. Attractive Eastgate elevation consists chiefly of gable end comprising one semi-circular light. Round-arched doorway with double-doors with ornamental hinges. Nos 2-5 (consec) are 2 flanking blocks of 3 storeys in red brick with yellow dressings. Welsh slate roofs hipped round quoins with brick stacks and iron finial to corner. Yellow brick eaves cornice, arcading and dentils. 3 windows to each block, to both elevations, hung sashes. 1st floor have strings joining pointed dripmoulds over round-headed windows. 2 doorways in chamfered angles of buildings, round-headed fanlights beneath pointed hoods with finials beneath labels. Modern shop fronts. Nos 1 to 5 (consec), No 7 and Market Hall, Eastgate, form a group.

Listing NGR: TF3285187406