market place

Attached corner-sited five- and six-bay single-storey red brick building, built c. 1900, with a corner entrance bay and decorative parapet wall. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with a central glazed atrium section with artificial slate hipped roof c. 1990. Cement coping to parapet wall rising to an obelisk finial corresponding to pilasters flanking all bays. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with a moulded brick course below parapet level and a further moulded course above the bays. Rusticated brick pilasters flank all bays. Brick camber-headed display window openings, glazed with a projecting cement square-headed arch to the centre of each bay c. 1990. A brick flat-arched door opening to the centre of each elevation with modern uPVC double-leaf glazed doors. To the corner is a rounded recessed entrance shelter c. 1990 with a terracotta section to the parapet and a stepped concrete section beneath. A flight of three concrete steps give access to the building with double-leaf uPVC doors.

The original purpose of this building is unclear, but it may have been a market building. In use as a garage from 1975-1985, it was subsequently converted into an information centre with some unsympathetic details. However, its decorative parapet and low lying nature make it of interest to the street and part of its character.