Le Crazy Croissant

The building comprises Market Chambers, incorporating 5-6 Market Street, and The Arcade, constructed in the Renaissance style during the 18th century. It is three storeys tall with an attic. The building is of pale brick with red brick banding and freestone dressings, including the frontispiece, sill bands, cornices, and slate roof.

The symmetrical five-bay front has end and central bays topped by pedimented attic storeys. The outer bays feature oval-shaped windows. The central bay has acroteria, urns, and a pair of lintelled windows. The central frontispiece projects forward, featuring a moulded segmental pediment over a traceried lunette with swagged ornament in the upper storey. An aedicule (a decorative architectural feature) in the middle storey frames a tripartite window with a lintel sculpted with bucranium (ox-head) motifs, and has paired and cabled pilasters. Below the sill is a facial mask with scrolled enrichment. The lower storey has a dentil cornice over a round-headed entrance with tapered pilasters. Panelled double doors are set beneath a radiating fanlight.

Sash windows have margin glazing and are fitted with overlights. Upper-storey windows are round-headed, while middle-storey windows are square-headed. Triple windows are set in bays offset from the centre, and double windows are in the outer bays. The shop fronts on the lower storey have been modernised, but retain the original fascia with end consoles to the right of centre (at Nos 5c and 6).

The left side (at 5a-b) extends around to Church Street, with a splayed angle housing the doorway. There are single windows above the doorway, and a single-bay return with aired windows in the upper storeys and a pedimented attic similar to the front. Further to the left is the former hall, now known as The Arcade, which features details similar to the main Market Street front, but is only two storeys high. Its upper storey has four windows, and the gable contains a broad round-headed window with radiating and marginal glazing bars. The Arcade retains its original fascia with end consoles (altered on the right) and a pedimented doorway to the left of centre, with a modern entrance to its right.

The rear elevation faces a passage and the Market Taven Hotel. The front of No 6 continues around this side, with a splayed angle incorporating the doorway, similar to the left side, followed by a single bay with an attic, mirroring the Church Street elevation. The Arcade beyond this has a round-headed doorway added after it ceased use as a town hall, and a triple window in the upper storey.