Town Hall And Corn Exchange

1. 865 MARKET PLACE (North Side) Town Hall and Corn Exchange ST 8806 1/50 27.10.50. I GV

2. Portland stone ashlar front. Signed "Bastard, Architect" and dated 1734. Frieze. 2 storey 3 window front, enriched cornice and pediment. Draped stone vases to pediment and quoin parapets. Clock in tympanum. The three lst floor windows have moulded architraves, enriched pulvinated friezes, and pediments, the central one being segmental. Moulded strings. The ground floor has 3 semi-circular arches with moulded imposts and archivolts leading to open portico, formerly a market. The front room on the Ist floor has some original fittings and also portraits of the Bastards. Behind is a mid-Victorian Corn Exchange with interesting elliptical roof-trusses. Gates to semi-circular arches in portico.

All the listed buildings in Market Place, and Nos 59 to 73 (odd) East Street, Conyer's Filling Station, Nos 1 to 7 (odd), Nos 2 to 8 (even) and No 12 West Street, and Church of St Peter and St Paul form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8849406328