General Market Building

The General Market Building is a 19th-century structure that features a top-lit market hall and a row of six shops along its west elevation facing Henblas Street, with public conveniences located in the southeast corner. The entrance to the market hall is positioned at the southwest corner and leads towards the northwest. The building has single-storey screen walls made of red Ruabon brick, accented with ashlar dressings and terracotta details, and is topped with a parabolic slate roof that includes a continuous glazed clerestory, ornately traceried in the north-facing gable.

The main entrance, which faces the Butcher's Market across the street, is marked by scrolled ironwork screens and double gates beneath a shouldered lintel that displays 'General Market' in raised letters. This is set within a high segmental archway supported by stepped pilasters, topped with a dated panel in a patterned terracotta tympanum. Above this, a truncated stone coped gable features ornate terracotta corbelling and volutes at the parapet.

From the angled entrance, the screen walls extend east and north. The short eastern return contains the public conveniences, featuring an advanced entrance to the right, a second arched doorway in the center, and small recessed windows with raking sills and stone lintels. The longer northern range houses the shops, some of which retain original details such as recessed doorways and iron-framed windows with slender bracketed corner posts and upper margin lights. While the fascias were originally incorporated into the iron framing, much of this detail has been renewed. Brick pilasters at the outer angles support a stone cornice that continues over the shop fronts, culminating in a parapet with inset terracotta panels. There is a second entrance to the market hall towards the north, which mirrors the main entrance with scrolled screens leading to paired iron gates and a flat stone lintel beneath a raised panelled parapet. A further shop, styled similarly to the others, occupies the northwest corner of the site, while the elevations to the east and north are blind.

Inside, the market hall consists of five aisled bays with apsidal ends. It features cast iron octagonal columns with ornamental capitals that support hooped iron trusses, complemented by openwork angle brackets over the aisles and between the trusses, and a tongue and groove boarded roof.