Former Corn Hall, 7 Market Place

The Former Corn Hall, located at 7 Market Place, was designed and built in 1858 by Mathias Goggs of Swaffham. Initially a corn exchange, it was converted into a labour exchange in 1958 and partly transformed into a coffee shop in 2010.

The building is constructed of red and gault brick dressings, both in Flemish bond, topped with a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan, aligned north to south, and consists of two tall storeys in a two-by-four bay block with a gault brick plinth. Each bay features round-arched recesses on pilasters with minimal capitals, all made of gault brick, while the infill is of red brick. The ground-floor windows are two-light stone mullioned casements beneath polychrome segmental heads. The first-floor windows are two-light round-arched casements with stone mullions and foliated capitals, also under polychrome round-arched heads. Notably, on the west side, the third bay from the left has a tall, round-arched doorway with a projecting stone surround and round-arched sidelights, all accented with polychrome brick heads. The right-hand bay at the north end features half-glazed double doors under a polychrome segmental head. Between the wall arches are punched triangular inserts, and above them is a dentilled and cogged eaves cornice. Both the north and south ends have a central roundel depicting sheaves of corn beneath each gable, topped with stone-coped parapets.

Inside, the space has been subdivided for office and retail use, with a staircase and suspended ceilings added in the second half of the 20th century.