Former Corn Exchange

The Former Corn Exchange, built in 1853, is a corn exchange located on the west side of Market Place at No 31. It features a red brick structure with a stucco facade and Welsh slate roofs. The building has a two-storey facade designed in the Mannerist Classical style. On the ground floor, there are two large windows with glazing bars, flanked by Tuscan half-columns. The central door has an architrave with chamfered jambs and a projecting keyblock, set within wide Tuscan pilasters. The facade is further enhanced by Tuscan end pilasters supporting carved brackets, which flank a plain frieze topped with an egg-and-dart cornice. Rusticated quoin strips adorn the moulded parapet, which is shaped over a central Venetian window featuring margin-light sashes and fielded infill panels. The building is crowned by an elaborate timber bell cupola.

At the rear, the hall includes a panelled door with a decorative fanlight, and the clerestorey and lantern are glazed with plate glass. The interior features a stick-baluster staircase at the front and a vestibule to the left of the hall, illuminated by a glazed dome. The hall itself has cast-iron columns supporting lattice girders and the springing for a wrought-iron roof dating from around 1895, which includes sickle-girder trusses with semi-circular arched ribs set within the upper tier of trusses leading to the lantern. A clock, presented in 1853 by farmers attending the market, is located at the rear.