Former Corn Hall, 7 Market Place

Former corn exchange, designed and built in 1858 by Mathias Goggs of Swaffham, converted into a labour exchange in 1958, partly converted into a coffee shop in 2010.

MATERIALS: of red and gault brick dressings, both in Flemish bond, and a slate roof.

PLAN: it is rectangular-on-plan, aligned north to south.

EXTERIOR: the building is of two tall storeys in a rectangular two-by-four bay block with a gault brick plinth. Each bay is defined by round-arched recesses on pilasters with minimal capitals, all of gault brick with the infill being of red brick. The ground-floor windows are two-light stone mullioned casements under polychrome segmental heads, while the first-floor windows are two-light round-arched casements with stone mullions with foliated capitals under polychrome round-arched heads. The exceptions to this are on the west side, where the third bay from the left-hand side has a tall, round-arched doorway with a projecting stone surround and round-arched sidelights, all with polychrome brick heads, while the right-hand bay at the north end has half-glazed double doors under a polychrome segmental head. Between the wall arches are punched triangular inserts, above which is a dentilled and cogged eaves cornice. The north and south ends both have a central roundel with sheaves of corn under each gable, over which are stone-coped parapets.

INTERIOR: the interior has been subdivided as office and retail space, with a staircase and suspended ceilings inserted in the second half of the C20.