Fishmongers Shop (Former Market House) Tourist Information Centre

A market house, now a tourist information centre and fishmonger’s shop, believed to date from 1799. It is constructed of painted stone rubble with brick door and window arches and has a slate roof. This long, freestanding building has an oblong shape, one room deep, with its northwest corner sharply splayed where The Strand turns into The Quay. The building has two storeys and 8 windows facing the harbour, and 6 facing The Strand.

The harbour-facing side has 5 wide, segmental-arched doorways to the left, with the two leftmost converted to windows and the extreme left one partially blocked. To the right is a shop window (likely a later addition), a plank door, a small loading-hatch with a plank door on strap-hinges, and a pair of plank doors with strap-hinges. The upper storey on this side has 2 blocked windows to the left and one at the far right end, and 3 windows in the centre, each with a 3-light wood casement containing 3 panes per light. Two loading-hatches to the right have double plank doors with strap-hinges. The front facing The Strand has 6 doorways, large and small, and a window in the ground storey, all with segmental arches, and all now boarded up. Upper-storey windows here are also boarded up, except for the left-hand one, which matches those on the harbour side.

The south-east gable-end has a wide, segmental-arched doorway in the ground storey. Above this, to the right, is a 2-light window matching those on the harbour side, and to the left, a large loading-hatch with double plank doors in a plain wood frame with pegged joints, probably original. The northwest gable-end has, to the right of the ground storey, a segmental-arched doorway containing old plank double-doors with strap-hinges, likely original with some repairs. To the left is a slightly projecting round-arched niche with a moulded archivolt, possibly designed for a water tap. There are no openings in the upper storey of this gable end.

The ground floor upper floor was not inspected. The building is marked 'Market House' on the 1864 Ordnance Survey map of Brixham. The building date of 1799 is thought to relate to the Haven and Market Improvement Act passed in that year, under which commissioners owned the Market House.