The Old Ticket Office Including Steps, Wall And Railings Adjoining East

The Old Ticket Office, also known as a former market house, dates from the late 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with red brick dressings and features a pyramidical tiled roof topped with a terracotta finial. A red brick chimney with a bracketed cornice and louvre pot is located at the southwest corner. The building has a square plan and is a single storey high.

On the exterior, there is a doorway on the west side facing Sheep Market, and a window on each of the other three sides. All openings have segmental-headed, ovolo-moulded red brick surrounds. The north wall, which faces the Lamb, has a round-arched recess at its base that contains a public tap, protected by an iron cage. The east side features a yellow terracotta platform or seat, flanked on the left by a stone pier with red brick dressings. Above this is a wooden canopy with a shaped fringe, which continues around the south side but without the fringe. The south side also has a yellow brick pavement.

Access to the building from Leechwell Street is via a long, shallow flight of granite-faced steps, with a stone rubble wall on either side. At the top of the left side, there is a chamfered red brick pier with a bracketed cap, and at the bottom of the right side, an old gate post made from a single piece of granite. The boundary wall to Leechwell Street is made of squared limestone rubble, topped with iron railings featuring fleur-de-lis finials on the uprights, which continue up the left side of the steps.

The sheep market is believed to have been established on this site in 1677, but a 1:500 OS map from 1887 shows a house on the Leechwell Street frontage. This house was likely demolished later in the 19th century when the market house was built on what had been its garden.