The Town Hall

The Town Hall is a large market house with classical details, built in the 19th century. It consists of two adjoining units: the block facing New Market Street to the north has two storeys, while the rear block facing Old Market Street to the south has three storeys. The northern unit features a lower slate roof with brick end stacks. Its frontage is rendered with raised exposed stone quoins and boasts a fine six-window range of 12-pane sash windows on the first floor. The centre four windows form a wide projecting gabled bay that includes a clock at the apex. Below a string course, the ground floor windows are 20th-century inserts, and the ground floor sides are made of roughly squared stone. There is one first floor sash window that matches those of the southern unit.

The southern unit, which is taller, has a hipped slate roof with coved eaves cornice topped by a louvred cupola and weathervane. The ground floor is constructed of roughly dressed coursed stone, while the upper floors are rendered, partly scored, and painted. The main five-bay south elevation features a round-arched arcade with an impost band, although the arches are now blocked and filled with later windows and doors. The first floor has segmental-arched horned 12-pane sashes set in reveals, and above are blind oculi with architraves linked by a band at impost level that extends around the west return. The west elevation includes a lateral stack, a single blocked first floor window to the main wing, and a stone staircase leading to the first floor, which rises along the side of the northern wing and former arches of the southern wing. The east elevation is similar to the south, two bays wide and facing Old Market Street, with one of the market arches converted into the current entrance.

The building has been converted into club premises, resulting in little historic fabric surviving. It features two bars on the ground floor, one of which includes some cast iron columns, and a bar and function room on the first floor. The staircase rises against the east wall.