Old Market Hall

The Old Market Hall is a former market hall that has been converted into a craft centre. It is a single-storey building with a facade facing Stone Street and side elevations towards King's Road and Market Square. The exterior features painted roughcast and stucco in a neo-Grec style, influenced by the work of Sir John Soane.

The five-bay facade is framed by double piers around the central bay and single piers at the outer corners. It has a frieze and cornice that step over the piers, with a low parapet or blocking course on the flat roof. The roof is slightly broken forward over the piers, which support hoop-topped finials at the outer angles and small raised blocks with pediments over the paired piers. Each side bay has two narrow arched windows with metal glazing from the early 20th century, while the center features a large arched doorway with 20th-century double doors and a metal fanlight with iron glazing bars and marginal panes.

Above the center is an octagonal tower set on an octagonal plinth. The tower has a narrow rectangular blank panel on each face, a narrow modillion cornice, and a low octagonal leaded cap with a finial and iron vane. The side elevations are longer but similar, each having two windows in a bay next to the doorway, with outer plain doors that have shelf cornices on brackets. The central door on the south side has a full-height stucco surround with a moulded arch and imposts, a frieze, and a cornice. The blocking course of the central block is slightly gabled forward compared to the lower flanking blocks. The north side was likely similar but is obscured by a later 20th-century toilet block.

Inside, the hall features late 20th-century shops arranged around a central glazed space, which has a metal roof that may date back to 1905, although it could be from a later period.