Lesser Market

The Lesser Market is a single-storey building constructed in 1885, featuring a stucco front with five bays. It includes four rectangular openings for shop windows and a narrower archway at the second bay from the south, leading to a footway. The building has a plain low block parapet with a raised central feature that includes a lettered panel and a pediment supported by scrolls on each side. A large cornice moulding with bold dentils sits above a plain frieze, and there is an architrave barrel adorned with carved and coloured fruit ornamentation, which is also repeated as pilaster strips between the openings. The windows are made of plate glass, and there are plain doors. The roof is slate. This structure is prominent and connects to other listed buildings, although its facade conceals a later 20th-century three-storey building that is of no architectural interest.