Brecon Market

Narrow entrance from High Street Superior through stone archway with keystone flanked by Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature with modillion cornice, surmounted by a blind balustraded parapet. The aisles of the Market Hall are faced externally with stone rubble in regular courses; outer aisles with gabled roofs and centre aisle with hipped roof. Rear elevation in Market Street of 3 bays; outer bays gabled. To centre, blocked window retaining stone cornice; blocked camber-headed windows to outer bays. Ground floor entries to vaults with ashlar band above; two segmental doorways to centre; outer bays with inner round-headed window, and outer camber-headed doorway. Side blocks with brick barrel-vaulted roofs; centre wing with groined vaulted roof.

Narrow passage with walls of stone leads to wider arcaded section of market. Beyond, larger market hall of 1897; ten bays in three aisles with taller centre aisle and all three lit by continuous roof lights and ending in a blind facade to Market Street; built upon an impressive substructure of vaults. Plaque at far end records building of the larger hall in 1897. A painted wooden board records tolls in 1905.