Old Market Hall

Former market hall, now craft centre, single storey with facade to Stone Street and side elevations to King's Road and Market Square. Painted roughcast and stucco neo-Grec style influenced by work of Sir John Soane. Five bay facade with double piers framing centre bay, single piers at outer angles, frieze and cornice stepped over piers and low parapet or blocking course to flat roof, broken forward over piers, carrying hoop-topped finials at outer angles and small raised blocks with pediments over paired piers. Two narrow arched windows with metal earlier C20 glazing to each side bay and centre has large arched doorway with C20 double doors and metal fanlight with iron glazing bars and marginal panes. Above centre is octagonal tower, on octagonal plinth, the tower with a narrow rectangular blank panel on each face a narrow modillion cornice and low octagonal leaded cap with finial and iron vane. The sides are longer but similar, 2 windows in bay each side of doorway, but with outer plain doors with shelf cornices on brackets. The centre door on the S has a stucco full-height surround with moulded arch and imposts, frieze and cornice, and blocking course of centre block slightly gabled forward of lower flanking blocks. The N side was probably similar but obscured by added C20 toilet block.

Interior has late C20 shops around centre glazed space, this with metal roof possibly of 1905, though perhaps later.