The Town Hall

Town hall and market, grey limestone ground floor and dressings, with unpainted render to upper floor and tower, and slate deep-eaved roof on paired brackets. Italianate style, 2 storeys with open arcaded ground floor market, N porch tower with stairs to first floor meeting room, and cells to ground floor W. Three-bay W and E ends with rendered pedimental gables each with blank roundel over broad band. W end has 3 12-pane horned sashes in plain raised surrounds with stone sills and small grey stone sill-corbels over 3-bay arcade with square piers, plain plinths and impost blocks, stone voussoirs and big keystones to arches, the keystones under raised blocks in first floor band. N and S side have similar hornless sashes over arches to 4 bays, but eastern arch infilled for C20 toilets. N side fifth bay has projected belvedere tower, over entrance and similar first floor 12-pane sash to left bay over narrow arched window in raised surround, breaking impost band, and keystone. Tower has recessed arched doorway with big outer arch matching main arcade, framing inner arch with imposts, double 4-panel doors and 4-pane fanlight. First floor arched window with sunk panel below sill, the glazing with marginal bars and 3 roundels in head. Band above eaves level of main building, and top stage of tower with grey stone roundel each face, 2 bands with big paired fretwork brackets under eaves of shallow-pyramid roof. with tall thin timber open lantern, arched each face with steep metal curved pyramid roof and vane with Prince of Wales feathers. S side is similar without porch tower but fifth bay projected slightly with blank arch, rock-faced stone infill with impost band broken forward under sill of small cambered-headed iron-barred cell-window in raised surround. Sixth bay has no window, plinth, impost band and first floor band carried across. E end has 3 blank arches to ground floor with band at impost level. First arch has barred cell window over impost band, second has larger cambered-headed window over band and thid with framed ledged door and 3-pane small cambered headed window above band with stone voussoirs. Door has tooled jambs and slab lintel. First floor has 2 long narrow arched 16-pane windows with stone sills on grey stone corbels and raised surrounds.

Open market area is stone flagged with 3 iron columns made by T Bright of Carmarthen. C20 brick walling to toilets at back. Stone stairs in tower to upper meeting room with plaster ceiling. Upper floor not inspected.