Brecon Market

Brecon Market is a Grade II listed building featuring a narrow entrance from High Street Superior, which is accessed through a stone archway with a keystone. This archway is flanked by Tuscan pilasters that support an entablature with a modillion cornice, topped by a blind balustraded parapet. The aisles of the Market Hall are faced externally with stone rubble laid in regular courses, with the outer aisles having gabled roofs and the center aisle featuring a hipped roof. The rear elevation on Market Street consists of three bays, with the outer bays gabled. In the center, there is a blocked window that retains a stone cornice, and the outer bays have blocked camber-headed windows. The ground floor has entries to vaults with an ashlar band above, including two segmental doorways in the center and outer bays that contain an inner round-headed window and an outer camber-headed doorway. The side blocks have brick barrel-vaulted roofs, while the center wing has a groined vaulted roof.

A narrow passage with stone walls leads to a wider arcaded section of the market. Beyond this is a larger market hall built in 1897, which features ten bays arranged in three aisles. The center aisle is taller, and all three aisles are illuminated by continuous roof lights, culminating in a blind facade facing Market Street. This hall is constructed on an impressive substructure of vaults. A plaque at the far end commemorates the construction of the larger hall in 1897, and a painted wooden board records tolls from 1905.