Market House

The Market House, located in Tetbury Market Place, was built in 1655 and underwent alterations in 1740 and 1817. It is a timber-framed structure faced in roughcast on all sides except the north, which features coursed and dressed stone with some snecking. The building has a hipped Cotswold stone slate roof with projecting eaves and a wooden modillion cornice, arranged in two ranges with gables at the center of the north, west, and south sides. The Market House is supported by three rows of open Tuscan arcades of stone, forming a rectangle that is two bays deep and seven bays long, with an additional filled-in bay on the south side.

The east side originally had an additional floor and a row of windows. The north side retains its original appearance, featuring two large round arches with chamfered voussoirs and enlarged keystones, along with a moulded impost course. Tapering pilasters with bases and plinths are positioned at the sides and between the arches, with a moulded cornice that breaks forward for "capitals." A blind oval panel is present in the north gable, and there are buttresses on the outside walls at the north end, as well as attached Tuscan columns on the inner face of the arches.

On the west side, there is a clock face in the gable, along with a copper-roofed cupola that houses a bell and a weathervane adorned with dolphins. The floor above the arcades features seven three-light cambered head lattice lights with wooden square hoodmoulds, and there is a door above the center of the arcade in the same style. The south end bay was filled in during 1817 to accommodate the town fire engine, featuring large central double doors on the first floor with ten stone steps leading up, a large moulded lintel with a keystone, and square hoodmoulds with moulded jambs. Smaller doorways flank the steps on the ground floor, all with studded boarded doors and two-light stone mullion blind windows above. The gable on the south side also has a clock face.

Inside, the main room consists of five bays with a central row of large wooden columns on carved bases, featuring debased Ionic columns, large plain impost blocks, and carved side bracing. The strut bracing on the sides is chamfered.