Old Market Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. Market hall.

Old Market Hall

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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 October 1950
Type
Market hall
Source
Cadw listing

Description

2-storey, 5-bay black and white market hall with open ground floor - the southern bay on E side is closed in. Slate roof with octagonal small pane galzed cupola and weathervane; overhanging eaves (cut back on E side at ends). Rubble S gable, red brick N gable; close studded timberwork between with deep middle rails; chamfered bressumers with segmental arched braces below. The windows are small pane with protruding frames and rise to eaves level; 3 to the W side and 1 to the E side are fixed, otherwise they are horizontally sliding sashes. The E side formerly had a boarded loading door dating from when the upper floor was used as a wool store.

The S end has a low cambered arch with voussoirs; timber head to the arch on the inner side. The N gable end is of Flemish bond brick; toothed band above 1st floor 12-pane horned sashes with flush frames and cambered heads; further band course over paired cambered ground floor openings with voussoirs. At the NW corner is a stone from which John Wesley is said to have preached in 1748, 1749 and 1764.

The interior of the upper floor has 5-bay largely renewed roof, one truss of which was formerly infilled partitioning off the gaol at S end. Stop chamfered beams. Modern staircase.

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