Market House

The building is a former public house, dating from 1855. It was designed by James Bunstone Bunning for the Corporation of the City of London. Constructed of yellow brick in English bond, with Portland stone dressings, it has a roof of slate. The building has four storeys over a basement, with four windows facing Market Road and five facing Shearling Way, these being the principal facades.

The corners are defined by rusticated stone quoins, and there's a stone plinth. An elliptical-arched entrance is located within a single-storey porch on the east side, flanked by rusticated pilasters, an architrave, a fluted keystone, panelled spandrels, and a cornice. There's one flat-arched entrance to Market Road, and two to Shearling Way. Ground-floor windows are flat-arched and flanked by slim engaged columns; the windows to Shearling Way, along with the entrances, form a continuous range across the entire front. The columns support elaborate brackets supporting a first-floor balcony across the Shearling Way front, with cast-iron railings. A fascia is present on Market Road. First-floor windows are round-arched with architraves, cornices on consoles, and panelled spandrels; those to Shearling Way are one pane deeper than those in Market Road. A sill band defines the second-floor windows, which are similarly detailed but with segmental pediments instead of cornices. Third-floor windows are round-arched, with bracketed sills, panelled spandrels, and plain stepped pilasters rising into a plain frieze. A dentil cornice sits above the third floor. All windows retain original sash designs. The building has two hipped roofs running north-south, with panelled and corniced stacks—one along each ridge and two at the ends to the north.

During a recent inspection, while the building was being refurbished, the interior retained panelled dadoes, a fluted cast-iron Corinthian column, a panelled beam, and cornices.