Market Building

The Market Building, also known as the Corn Exchange, is a former corn exchange and market building located on Cornhill in Lincoln. Built in 1879 by the architectural firm Bellamy & Hardy, it has since been converted into a restaurant, covered market, and bingo club in the late 20th century. The structure is made of brick with stone dressings, featuring iron piers and joists, and is topped with slate and lead roofs that include two gable stacks and three gabled ventilators. It is designed in the Italianate style.

The exterior showcases a moulded plinth, a first-floor band, a modillion cornice, and a pedimented east gable. The building is two to three storeys high and consists of twelve bays. On the south side, there is an entrance bay to the left, with three storeys. The ground floor features a 20th-century shopfront, while the upper floors have two tripartite sash windows, with keystones on the second floor. Between these windows is the City arms, and above them is an open pediment with an inscribed datestone. The steeply pitched pyramidal roof has a flat top and a wrought-iron crest, with louvred round-arched dormers on each side. To the right, there are shouldered ground floor openings with late 20th-century shopfronts, some under a late 20th-century glazed canopy. Above this is a round-arched blind arcade with shaped keystones. The east gable features two round-headed windows, while the north side has pilasters and cogged eaves.

Inside, the main hall boasts a laminated wood hammer beam roof supported by iron spandrels and ornamented tie rods, with blind arcaded walls. The first floor is carried on cast-iron columns.