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Detached U-plan single-storey former market house, built 1861. Central section having basement and presenting seven bays to front and gable-fronted projecting vehicular entrance bay, seven-bay two-storey rear elevation and two-bay gable ends. Nine-bay flanking blocks are lower and have shallow loggias to front, and five-bay rear elevations. Now in use as Town Council offices, library and toilets. Pitched slate roofs, having tooled stone octagonal chimneystacks to ends of main block, octagonal cupola with wind vane to middle of same block, corbelled eaves, cut-stone copings, and asbestos box gutters. Exposed squared limestone walls having smooth limestone quoins and plinth. Loggias have cast-iron Tuscan columns and cast-iron brackets to gutters, with road gables having coronet '1861' and 'B' over doorways. Square-headed window and door openings to front elevations and camber-headed windows and segmental-headed doorways to rear elevations, windows having tooled stone sills and dressings with combination of recent steel-frame, uPVC and timber windows, and doors being battened timber, some with grilled overlights. Roundel to main entrance having tooled stone dressings and clock. Elliptical arch to main entrance, with tooled stone dressings and timber double-leaf door. Basement is barrel-vaulted and has iron roof trusses. Paved forecourt to building, and yard to rear enclosed by rubble limestone walls.
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