The Butter Market

The Butter Market is a small market hall located on Cheshire Street in Market Drayton, built in 1824. It is constructed from grey sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has three rows of four bays, with equally spaced side openings and narrow end openings flanking a wider central opening. The open sides are supported by unfluted Doric columns that stand on a raised stone platform. The gable ends are triangular-pedimented, with the north-west gable displaying the date of construction above carved corbels. At the center of the roof, there is a square wooden bellcote topped with a pyramidal slate cap, which is missing its finial, and houses a pair of copper fire bells. Inside, the market hall features a four-bay roof supported by king-post trusses. Notably, five of the stone columns inside are replacements that were taken from an old house and reused in the Butter Market around 1972.