Old Market Hall

The Old Market Hall is a building designed in a Mannerist style, constructed from coursed rock-faced stone with freestone dressings and topped with a slate roof featuring glazed strips. The front of the building has three bays and an interrupted gable that culminates in a central pediment. A tall, round-headed window with a keystone and small-pane glazing is positioned in the gable, flanked by pilasters that extend down to the labels of oval-shaped windows. Below these windows are round-headed doorways that feature tooled architraves, imposts, and cornices, although the doors and gates have been replaced. Between the doorways is a blind central panel with a corbelled sill. To the left, there is a similar side entrance beneath a gable that connects the Old Market Hall to a two-storey range of shops beyond.

Access to the Old Market Hall is also available through a passage from Market Street, located between Market Chambers and the Market Tavern Hotel. This entrance, known as the 'Reserve entrance', is set back from the street and features slender ironwork above a heavier cast iron gate. Above the gateway is a Dutch gable with a finial and a roundel, flanked by white-brick pilasters that are corbelled out from the level of the gate hinges.

The roof consists of nine bays supported by thin steel trusses. Inside, the floor is stone flagged and retains some early fixed timber stalls.