Old Fish Market

The Old Fish Market is a market hall built around 1855, located on Custom House Quay in Weymouth. It is constructed from Portland stone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has a near-square plan with a raised central clerestorey. The main facade faces the Quay, while the side returns onto Maiden Street.

The one-storey front has arched openings above two 15-pane windows, with a central pair of part-glazed doors topped by radial fanlights. The windows are set on stone sills above aprons, recessed with raised alternating jamb stones, and feature plain architraves above impost blocks, culminating in a prominent keystone that extends into a moulded eaves band. The door surround matches this detailing and is accessed via a single stone step. The facade is framed by channelled pilasters and includes a plinth, impost band, and eaves moulding beneath a deep projecting flat eaves with exposed shaped rafter ends.

The hipped lower roof rises to a central raised hipped clerestorey, which has vertical boarding, likely originally louvred. The return to Maiden Street consists of two bays, with one door and one window, designed similarly to the main front.

Inside, there is a dropped 20th-century ceiling and inserted brick piers, obscuring the original roof structure. The building once housed an ice room. The Old Fish Market is an attractive example of commercial architecture from the early 19th century.